Dream and Narrative

New Brontë-related research:

Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Edited by Isabelle Hervouet & Anne Rouhette

Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

ISBN:9781785277535

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.

The book includes the chapters: 

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.