Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a
distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect
of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth
century.
While dreams have been a sustained object of fascination from
the ancient world to the present, what sets this period apart is
the unprecedented interest in dream writing and interpretation in
the psychological sciences, and the migration of these ideas into a
wide range of cultural disciplines and practices.
Authors Helen Groth and Natalya Lusty examine how the
intensification and cross-fertilization of ideas about dreams in
this period became a catalyst for new kinds of networks of
knowledge across aesthetic, psychological, philosophical and
vernacular domains. In uncovering a complex and diverse archive,
"Dreams and Modernity" reveals how the explosion of interest in
dreams informed the psychic, imaginative and intimate life of the
modern subject.
Individual chapters in the book explore popular traditions of
dream interpretation in the 19th century; the archival impetus of
dream research in this period, including the Society for Psychical
Research and the Mass Observation movement; and the reception and
extension of Freud s dream book in Britain in the early decades of
the twentieth century.
This engaging interdisciplinary book will appeal to both
scholars and upper level students of cultural studies, cultural
history, Victorian studies, literary studies, gender studies and
modernist studies.
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