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This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women's writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I. WOMEN AND DREAMS: AN ONEIRIC FEMININE LITERARY TRADITION; Chapter 1. 'Delicate Females' and Psychedelic Creation in the Scientific Experiments of Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy, Kimberley Page-Jones; Chapter 2. Treading in Camilla's Footsteps?: Oneiric Experience and Women's Voices in Julia De Vienne (by a Lady, 1811) and Tales of Fancy (Sarah Harriet Burney, 1816- 20), Lucy- Anne Katgely; Chapter 3. The Passing on of Dreams: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and the Diana Figure, Audrey Souchet; PART II. DREAMS, ALTERITY AND THE DIVINE; Chapter 4. '[A]s Sometimes Poets Dream': Liminality and the Female Writer in the Poetry of Anne Finch, Debapriya Basu; Chapter 5. The Theology of Radcliff e's Dreams, Holly Hirst; Chapter 6. Providential Thinking: Dreams and the Rhetoric of Romance in The Old English Baron and The Romance of the Forest, Victor Sage; PART III. DREAMING (OF) MONSTERS: DREAMS, CREATIVITY AND AESTHETICS IN MARY SHELLEY'S FICTION; Chapter 7. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Approach to Dreams and Dreaming in Her Fictional Works Frankenstein, Valperga, Matilda and 'The Dream', Antonella Braida-Laplace; Chapter 8. The Monster of Their Dreams: The Night- Mare and Sleep Disorders in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and 'Introduction' (1831), Mathilde Giret; Chapter 9. Henry Fuseli's Nightmare(s) in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Fabien Desset; PART IV. BEYOND FRANKENSTEIN; Chapter 10. Dreaming Up Monsters: The Affective Intensity of Dreams, Nightmares and Delirium in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights, Anne Nagel; Chapter 11. 'And This Shall Be My Dream Tonight': Dream as Narrative in Wuthering Heights, Tricia Ayrton; Chapter 12. Dreams in Jane Eyre, Isabelle Hervouet; Postscript: A Jigsaw of Dreams, Margaret Anne Doody; Index.
About the author
Isabelle Hervouet is Senior Lecturer in British literature at Université Clermont-Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand. Her research focuses on the Gothic novel in Britain, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë.
Anne Rouhette is Senior Lecturer in British literature at Université Clermont-Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand. Her research focuses on women's writings in Britain (18th-19th centuries).
Summary
This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
