Dream-representation in Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment, and War and Peace.(Critical essay)

From: Symposium | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: McSweeney, Kerry | Copyright information

NOT ALL NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELISTS were interested in dreams. George Eliot, for example, makes no use of them because, as she assured her publisher, "Dreams usually play an important part in fiction, but rarely, I think, in actual life" (Letters 2: 309). In Hardy's novels, while characters are often said to be going to sleep or sleeping, what happens during sleep is rarely reported. But other novelists do make conspicuous use of dreams--for example, Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heig...

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