Eyes Wide Shut

In terms of the cultural significance of the dream, the century between the early Enlightenment, Romanticism and the beginning of the Restoration was a period of radical shifts. The Enlightenment defined it as a subject for psychological analysis, in Romanticism it offered insights into an unconscious which was conceived in terms of natural philosophy. Literature and art were always actively involved in these transformation processes. They developed a variety of formally and functionally different dream representations, which were on occasion characterised by irony and social criticism. The essays collected in this volume draw attention to previously neglected texts by, among others, Droste-Hülshoff, Wolzogen, Kant, Goethe and contributors to the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde. Additionally, they offer new insights into the discursive context of dream representations by authors and artists who already enjoy canonical status in dream studies, such as Novalis, Tieck, Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Fuseli.

Auteur
Sheila Dickson, Professor of German, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Selected publications: Romantic Dreams (co-ed. with Mark G. Ward, 1998); therein: »Making dreams come true in the works of Achim von Arnim«; »'Unerhörte Begebenheiten' in Karl Philipp Moritz's Journal of Empirical Psychology (1783-1793)« (2013); »'[D]as Innere des Men-schen aufklär[en]': Poetry as Psychology in Moritz's Magazin zur Erfah-rungsseelenkunde« (2015); K.P. Moritz, K.F. Pockels, S. Maimon, Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde. 10 volumes (digital critical edition, co-ed. with Christof Wingertszahn), http://www.mze.gla.ac.uk/ (2016); »Krankheit als romantischer Alltag in Achim von Arnims Der tolle Invalide und Frau von Saverne« (2016); "Eclectic Dichtotomies in K. P. Moritz's Aesthetic, Pedagogical, and Therapeutic Worlds", Goethe Yearbook. Publications of the Goethe Society of North America 28 (2021). Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-WalterHans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Professor of German, University of Galway, Ireland. Selected publications: Das Protokoll: Eine Textsorte und ihre kulturellen Funktionen (co-ed. with Michael Niehaus, 2005); Das nächtliche Selbst: Traumwissen und Traumkunst im Jahrhundert der Psycho-logie, 1850-1950, 2 vol. (co-ed. with Marie Guthmüller, 2016 and 2020); Der Traum im Gedicht (co-ed. with Bernard Dieterle, 2017).Schmidt, RicardaRicarda Schmidt, Professor em. of German, University of Exeter, UK. Se-lected publications: Wenn mehrere Künste im Spiel sind: Intermedialität bei E.T.A. Hoffmann (2006); Heinrich von Kleist: Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt (coed. with Seán Allan and Steven Howe, 2012); Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (co-authored with Seán Allan and Steven Howe, 2014). Since 2015 publications on dreams in literature in Cultural Dream Studies, Publications of the English Goethe Society, Kleist-Jahrbuch and others; Kunst in E.T.A. Hoffmann - E. T. A. Hoffmann in der Kunst. Intermediale Aspekte seines Werkes und Wirkens (coed. with Sheila Dickson. literatur für leser:innen, vol. 45, nos.1-2 (2022; published 2024).