Dream, creativity, and madness in nineteenth-century France /
Presents an analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. This book shows how doctors thinkers, and writers grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sle...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Presents an analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. This book shows how doctors thinkers, and writers grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191672873 0191672874 |