Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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- ISBN 9781785277528
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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, in which dreams are at the heart of the writing process but also constitute the diegetic substance of the narrative. The contributions re-examine the oneiric facets of the novel and develop fresh perspectives on dreams and dreaming in Mary Shelley’s fiction and on other female authors (Anne Finch, Ann Radcliffe, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and a few others), re-appraising the textuality of dreams and their link to women’s creativity and creation as a whole.
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).
