Dreams and Modernity

<p>This groundbreaking study is a history of the dream as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Drawing on a complex and diverse archive including popular dream books lectures novels poems visual media diaries letters scholarly texts and newspaper and journal articles <i>Dreams and Modernity</i> analyses how the explosion of interest in dreams informed the psychic imaginative and intimate life of the modern subject. The unauthorized nature of dream material and its formulation as a history from below makes it singularly illuminating for a broader cultural history of this period. </p>