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Informationen zum Autor Katharine Hodgkin teaches in the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London. Michelle O'Callaghan teaches in the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading. S. J. Wiseman teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London. Klappentext Exploring the meanings early modern people found in dreams, this compelling collection of essays looks at a range of topics, including prophetic dreams, ghosts in political writing and the dreams of animals. Zusammenfassung Exploring the meanings early modern people found in dreams, this compelling collection of essays looks at a range of topics, including prophetic dreams, ghosts in political writing and the dreams of animals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Reading the Early Modern Dream S.J. Wiseman 2. Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Oneiric Transport in Seventeenth- Europe Mary Baine Campbell 3. ‘Onely Proper Unto Man’: Dreaming and Being Human Erica Fudge 4. Dream-Visions of Elizabeth I Helen Hackett 5. Dreams, Prophecies and Politics: John Dee and the Elizabethan Court, 1575-85 Stephen Clucas 6. Dreaming the Dead: Ghosts and History in the early Seventeenth- Century Michelle O’Callaghan 7. ‘Imaginarie in Manner, Reall in Matter’: Rachel Speght’s Dreame and the Female Scholar-Poet Kate Lilley 8. Dreaming Meanings: Some Early Modern Dream Thoughts Katharine Hodgkin 9. ‘I Saw No Angel’: Civil War Dreams and the History of Dreaming S.J. Wiseman Contributors
