Historizing the dream

The essays in this volume trace the development of dream cultures through time both in synchronic and diachronic case studies. The scope of the contributions ranges geographically from New Zealand and China, over India, Mesopotamia, and Africa, to diverse European countries, and historically from Antiquity to the present. The volume covers various media and disciplines, such as literature, historiography, philosophy, painting, film, and TV series, and includes studies on Addison, Ammianus Marcellinus, Bachmann, Bembo, Bhasa, Blake, Buñuel, Cáo Xueqín, Chaucer, Dalí, De Quincey, Deren, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, van den Eeckhout, Eich, Flaubert, Grace-Smith, E. W. Happel, Herodotus, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Joyce, Kalidasa, Keller, Kleinschroth, Kouka, Kourouma, Lamkos, Langfus, Levi, Lessing, M. G. Lewis, C. F. Meyer, Michaux, Moreau de Tours, Nerval, Nietzsche, Petrarch, Plato, Subandhu, Tacitus, Tang Xianzu, Tiepolo, Tolstoy, Wieland, and others.