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Article: Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical Imagination.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical Imagination.
By Jennifer Ford. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 26) Cambridge, New
York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
xii +256 pp. [pound]37.50;$59.95.
Coleridge on Dreaming is a surprisingly good book. I say surprising because the subject of dreams in the Romantic period has been so thoroughly examined that there would seem to be little left to consider. But Jennifer Ford has produced a study that is fresh and original in its focus on the medical understanding of dreaming during the Romantic period as a context for studying Coleridge's views of dreams. The aim is not to argue that ...
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