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  • Nightmares in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Nightmares in the Long Nineteenth Century by Clemente, Frances; Colombani, Greta;

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    • Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
    • Date of Publication 12 April 2025
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031811630
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages332 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVII, 332 p. 28 illus., 18 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white
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    From Johann Heinrich Füssli’s 1781 oil painting The Nightmare, which was to become the iconic image of a newly emergent sensibility, to the first psychoanalytic studies culminating in “On the Nightmare” by Ernest Jones, first published in 1911, the long nineteenth century was characterised by a pervasive fascination with nightmares, both as frightening dreams and, in their personified form, evil spirits or monstrous creatures. This volume investigates the extensive and multifaceted presence of nightmares in the literature and culture of this period from a cross-disciplinary and cross-national perspective, shedding new light on the remarkably widespread nature of the nineteenth-century interest in nightmares as well as on common threads and features that inform and animate it. Its contributions by scholars from different fields reveal how nineteenth-century representations of nightmare, across and beyond Europe, explored fundamental questions about the limits of consciousness and reason, the complex interplay of body and mind, the elusive boundaries between self and other, and the dread of alterity, giving voice to deep-rooted fears and anxieties in a period when these notions were undergoing radical rethinking.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Introduction.- 2. The Disordered Eye of Sleep Bad Dreams and Sweet Nightmares in Charlotte Dacres Zofloya or The Moor 1806.- 3. Un cauchemar mentreint Nightmares and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century Fantastique.- 4. Nietzsches Use of Nightmares in Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book for All and None.- 5. Fluminense Nightmares Machado de Assis and the Oneiric.- 6. Between Nightmares and Awakenings Revisiting the reale fantasticizzato of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.- 7. Prophecy and Apocalypse at the Fin de Siecle Alfred Kubins The Other Side.- 8. Staging the Modern Nightmare.- 9. Testimonies of English Opium Eaters Thomas De Quinceys Confessions Opium Nightmares and Romantic Creative Genius.- 10. Spectral Selfhood in Sapphic Nightmares of the Belle Epoque.- 11. Vampires Nightmares and Imaginary Libraries.

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