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Author:   Frances Clemente ,  Greta Colombani
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031811630

ISBN 10:   3031811631
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   12 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Disordered Eye of Sleep Bad Dreams and Sweet Nightmares in Charlotte Dacres Zofloya or The Moor 1806.- Chapter 3: Un cauchemar mentreint Nightmares and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century Fantastique.- Chapter 4: Nietzsches Use of Nightmares in Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book for All and None.- Chapter 5: Fluminense Nightmares Machado de Assis and the Oneiric.- Chapter 6: Between Nightmares and Awakenings Revisiting the reale fantasticizzato of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.- Chapter 7: Prophecy and Apocalypse at the Fin de Siecle Alfred Kubins The Other Side.- Chapter 8: Staging the Modern Nightmare.- Chapter 9: Testimonies of English Opium Eaters Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions Opium Nightmares and Romantic Creative Genius.- Chapter 10: Spectral Selfhood in Sapphic Nightmares of the Belle Epoque.- Chapter 11: Vampires Nightmares and Imaginary Libraries.

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Frances Clemente is MHRA Research Scholar in European Modern Languages and Lecturer in Italian at St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on notions of alterity and how they relate to normative patterns of thinking and behaving in nineteenth- and early twetienth-century Italian culture and literature, especially from a gender perspective. She has published articles in journals such as Italian Studies, Quaderni d’italianistica, and The Italianist. Greta Colombani has recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD on communication with the Other World in British Romantic poetry at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of two monographs: A gordian shape of dazzling hue: Serpent Symbolism in Keats’s Poetry (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017) and Talking across Unbridgeable Distances: Anglo-American Fiction and the Theme of Supernatural Communication in the Early Nineteenth Century (Edizioni ETS, 2023).

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