Davison / Unknown Gothic dreams and nightmares

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6063-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Davison, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Gothic parasomnias and oneirocriticism: the sleep, dreams, and nightmares of Enlightenment reason and beyond
Carol Margaret Davison

Part I: Gothic dream and nightmare theory
1 The theology of Gothic dreams
Sam Hirst
2 Morphean space and the metaphysics of nightmare: Gothic theories of dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Notebooks
Kirstin A. Mills
3 The devil’s light: Marx, Engels, and diabolic Enlightenment
Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove

Part II: Early classic Gothic dreams and nightmares
4 The monsters of prophecy in the Gothic dream, 1764–1818
Richard W. Moore Jr
5 Haunted beyond dreams: the Gothic and Enlightenment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary, A Fiction
Liz Wan Yuen-Yuk

Part III: Victorian and nineteenth-century European Gothic dreams and nightmares
6 Wide awake and dreaming: the night, the haunt, and the female vampire
Maria Giakaniki
7 Spectral traces: dream manifestation in the Gothic short story
Nicola Bowring
8 ‘I have seen faces in the dark’: Gothic visions in the Society for Psychical Research’s Census of Hallucinations
Alice Vernon

Part IV: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Gothic dreams and nightmares: weird fiction, horror film, television, and video games
9 Stranger things: nightmarish realities in Thomas Ligotti’s fiction
Elisabete Lopes
10 Night walking: the oneiric horror cinema
Murray Leeder
11 Building the Gothic channel: dreams, spectral memories, and temporal disjunctions in The Witcher
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
12 ‘Lest the night carry on forever’: the transcendent Gothic unconscious in Bloodborne
James Aaron Green

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor