Overview

Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across more than two centuries of literature, the visual arts, and twentieth and twenty-first century visual media. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, it considers its subject in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of philosophy, morality, rationality, consciousness, and creativity.

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Author:   Carol Davison
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.427kg
ISBN:  

9781526195388

ISBN 10:   1526195380
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 -- .

Reviews

' Davison (Univ. of Windsor, Canada) critiques the “universalizing” psychoanalytic approach to Gothic dreaming, arguing that criticism must attend to local historical contexts for theorizing dreams.' Choice Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association -- .

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Carol Margaret Davison is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor

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