Gothic Dreams and Nightmares

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor

• Introduction – Gothic parasomnias and oneirocriticism: the sleep, dreams, and nightmares of Enlightenment reason and beyondCarol Margaret DavisonPart I: Gothic dream and nightmare theory1 The theology of Gothic dreams Sam Hirst2 Morphean space and the metaphysics of nightmare: Gothic theories of dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s NotebooksKirstin A. Mills3 The devil’s light: Marx, Engels, and diabolic EnlightenmentJayson Althofer and Brian MusgrovePart II: Early classic Gothic dreams and nightmares4 The monsters of prophecy in the Gothic dream, 1764–1818 Richard W. Moore Jr5 Haunted beyond dreams: the Gothic and Enlightenment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary, A Fiction Liz Wan Yuen-YukPart III: Victorian and nineteenth-century European Gothic dreams and nightmares6 Wide awake and dreaming: the night, the haunt, and the female vampireMaria Giakaniki7 Spectral traces: dream manifestation in the Gothic short storyNicola Bowring8 ‘I have seen faces in the dark’: Gothic visions in the Society for Psychical Research’s Census of HallucinationsAlice VernonPart IV: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Gothic dreams and nightmares: weird fiction, horror film, television, and video games9 Stranger things: nightmarish realities in Thomas Ligotti’s fiction Elisabete Lopes10 Night walking: the oneiric horror cinemaMurray Leeder11 Building the Gothic channel: dreams, spectral memories, and temporal disjunctions in The Witcher Lorna Piatti-Farnell12 ‘Lest the night carry on forever’: the transcendent Gothic unconscious in Bloodborne James Aaron GreenIndex

' 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.'ChoiceReprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association