| Description |
x, 194 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / A. C. Spearing -- 1. On the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions / Peter Brown -- 2. Medical and Moral Authority in the Late Medieval Dream / Steven Kruger -- 3. Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton, and Chaucer / David Aers -- 4. Baring Bottom: Shakespeare and the Chaucerian Dream Vision / Kathryn Lynch -- 5. 'The Interpretation of Dreams' in the Renaissance / Peter Holland -- 6. The 'Candy-Colored Clown': Reading Early Modern Dreams / Kathleen McLuskie |
| Summary |
"Reading Dreams contains seven new essays, based on new research, on the interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. The textual focus is both literary and non-literary. Chaucer and Shakespeare are important reference-points, while Langland, the Pearl-poet and Milton receive significant coverage. Diaries, philosophical texts, works on dream theory and medical treatises are also extensively used. The methodology is a mixture of close reading, detailed comparison and contextualising. Theoretical approaches are drawn from Freud, anthropology, and gender studies as well as from literary criticism."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-186) and index |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Dreams in literature.
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English literature -- Psychological aspects.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England -- History.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.
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Dreams.
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| Author |
Brown, Peter, 1948-
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| LC no. |
98051995 |
| ISBN |
0198183631 (acid-free paper) |
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