Dreams and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams and Modernity write by Natalya Lusty. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Dreams and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. While dreams have been a sustained object of fascination from the ancient world to the present, what sets this period apart is the unprecedented interest in dream writing and interpretation in the psychological sciences, and the migration of these ideas into a wide range of cultural disciplines and practices. Authors Helen Groth and Natalya Lusty examine how the intensification and cross-fertilization of ideas about dreams in this period became a catalyst for new kinds of networks of knowledge across aesthetic, psychological, philosophical and vernacular domains. In uncovering a complex and diverse archive, Dreams and Modernity reveals how the explosion of interest in dreams informed the psychic, imaginative and intimate life of the modern subject. Individual chapters in the book explore popular traditions of dream interpretation in the 19th century; the archival impetus of dream research in this period, including the Society for Psychical Research and the Mass Observation movement; and the reception and extension of Freud’s dream book in Britain in the early decades of the twentieth century. This engaging interdisciplinary book will appeal to both scholars and upper level students of cultural studies, cultural history, Victorian studies, literary studies, gender studies and modernist studies.
Adorned in Dreams
Adorned in Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adorned in Dreams write by Elizabeth Wilson. This book was released on 2003. Adorned in Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. She also discusses fashion's vociferous opponents, from the "dress reform" movement to certain strands of feminism. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or subvert it. This brand new edition of her book follows recent developments to bring the story of fashionable dress up to date, exploring the grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the "boho chic" of the mid 90's, retro-dressing, and the meanings of dress from the veil to soccer player David Beckham's pink-varnished toenails.
The Lure of Dreams
The Lure of Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lure of Dreams write by Harvie Ferguson. This book was released on 2005-08-04. The Lure of Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From literary theory to social anthropology, the influence of Freud runs through every part of the human and social sciences. In The Lure of Dreams, Harvie Ferguson shows how Freud's writings and particulary The Interpretation of Dreams contribute, both in their content and in the baroque and dream-like forms in which they are cast, to our understanding of the character of modernity. This novel and stimulating approach to Freud and to the dilemmas of modernity and postmodernity will fascinate everyone with an interest in the development of the modern consciousness.
Dreams of Modernity
Dreams of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of Modernity write by Laura Marcus. This book was released on 2014-11-24. Dreams of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.
Bread of Dreams
Bread of Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bread of Dreams write by Piero Camporesi. This book was released on 2023-07-17. Bread of Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears and fantasies. Camporesi develops the startling claim that many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to children and infants, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday imaginative life of peasants, beggars and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of dreams. Bread of Dreams is a rich and engaging book which provides a fresh insight into the everyday life and attitudes of people in pre-industrial Europe. Camporesi's vision is breathtaking and his work will be much discussed among social and cultural historians. This edition includes a Preface by Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
