Dreams in seventeenth-century English literature (Studies in English Literature)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Preface I. Major Theories of the Dream from Homer to Hobbes A. Supernatural Objective Dreams B. Self-Generated Heuristic and Mantic Dreams C. Naturalistic and Skeptical Theories D. Dream Interpretation II. Typical Uses of the Dream in Western Literature A. Dream Genres and Metaphors B. Vision Works: The Heuristic Dream C. Lyric and Romance: The Love Dream D. Drama and History: The Ominous Mantic Dream E. Narrative Works: Celestial, Infernal, and Interrelated Dreams III. Dream Visions in Seventeenth-Century English Literature A. Psychological, Autobiographical, Philosophical B. Political, Polemical, Satirical C. Moral and Religious IV. Dreams in Seventeenth-Century English Lyric Poetry A. “Neoplatonic” and “Stoic” B. The Love-Dream Lyric (I): Complimentary and Genteel C. The Love-Dream Lyric (II): Ratiocinative and Satiric D. The Love-Dream Lyric (III): Voluptuous V. Dreams in Seventeenth-Century English Dramatic and Narrative Works A. Shakespeare B. Seventeenth-Century Drama C. Seventeenth-Century Narratives VI. Milton A. Milton on Dreams B. Milton’s Use of Dreams C. Eve’s Dream D. Other Dreams in Paradise Lost Epilogue Bibliography Index