Dreams and Modernity

Lusty, Natalya; Groth, Helen

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“…All of these tales can be read as feminist in terms of their Sadeian interrogation and re-visioning of the masculine narrative of the castration complex. 43 The Freudian fear of castration as represented by the phallus is reversed, subverted and thus undone by recoding it as feminine. The sadistic act of defacing and/or devouring the 'other' is committed by an animal, as a kind of bestial alter-ego for the young female character.…”

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“…The adolescent body of the unruly debutante, or femme-enfant , becomes a metaphor for the instability of class and gender politics on the eve of World War II. 30 The upper classes are falling apart along with their social rituals and the New Woman is asserting her role in society. Jonathan P. Eburne has pointed out that all of Carrington's short stories 'end abruptly and inconclusively', and as such, they offer anxious premonitions of the coming war.…”

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Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle

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Violence and the Limits of Representation

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Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle

McAra¹

2013

Violence and the Limits of Representation

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Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner

Ong

2014

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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Between Freud and Coleridge: Contemporary Scholarship on Victorian Literature and the Science of Dream‐states

Schatz

2015

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The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of recent scholarship on specific kinds of sleep and dream‐states in 19th‐century literature and science and to note areas where there is an apparent dearth in order to encourage further research. The categories surveyed here are general studies of sleep and dream‐states, mesmerism and related trance‐like states (such as hypnotism and animal magnetism), déjà vu, and nightmares or Incubus (more recently termed “sleep paralysis”). Given the plurality and fluidity of historical approaches to understanding “dreamy” mental states, this survey will expand the contemporary literary corpus on dream‐states by including historical, scientific, anthropological, and other studies alongside literary criticism in order to suggest possible points of comparison across disciplines that have not been fully explored. As this survey will demonstrate, Victorian discussions of dream‐states were highly interdisciplinary in nature, and so reading different contemporary methodological approaches to these topics can illuminate ideas, questions, and points of interest that are not necessarily apparent from a single theoretical or disciplinary perspective. This multi‐discipline approach allows for a more pluralistic account of scholarship on Victorian dream‐states and will encourage greater cross‐talk among scholars and journals about Victorian dream‐states and their continuing relevance in contemporary literature, culture, and science.

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Dreams and Modernity

Cited by 5 publications

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Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle

Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle

Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner

Between Freud and Coleridge: Contemporary Scholarship on Victorian Literature and the Science of Dream‐states

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