Dream and Literary Creation in Womens Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in womens writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, in which dreams are at the heart of the writing process but also constitute the diegetic substance of the narrative. The contributions re-examine the oneiric facets of the novel and develop fresh perspectives on dreams and dreaming in Mary Shelleys fiction and on other female authors (Anne Finch, Ann Radcliffe, Emily and Charlotte Bront and a few others), re-appraising the textuality of dreams and their link to womens creativity and creation as a whole.