Description |
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) |
Series |
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 26 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 26.
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Contents |
1. Dreaming in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 2. Dramatic dreaming spaces -- 3. The language of dreams -- 4. Genera and species of dreams -- 5. 'Nightmairs' -- 6. The mysterious problem of dreams -- 7. Translations of dream and body -- 8. The dreaming medical imagination |
Summary |
This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical indexes (pages 235-253) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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SUBJECT |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 fast |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 gnd |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834) -- Psychologie. ram |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. swd |
Subject |
Dreams in literature.
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Psychology
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Poetry -- Psychological aspects
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Dreams -- History -- 18th century
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Dreams -- History -- 19th century
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Romanticism -- England
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Dreams -- history
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Literature -- history
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Poetry as Topic -- history
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dreams
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Dreams in literature
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Poetry -- Psychological aspects
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Poets, English -- Psychology
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Psychology
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Romanticism
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Traum Motiv
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Traum
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Dromen.
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Romantiek.
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Rêves -- Dans la littérature.
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Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Aspect psychologique.
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England
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585000662 |
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9780585000664 |
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9780521583169 |
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0521583160 |
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9780511581861 |
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0511581866 |
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