Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical Imagination

by Jennifer Ford

Book Overview

This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521021782
• ISBN13: 9780521021784
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"