Dreams in Post-Reformation England
- 주제(키워드) dreams , divine origin , early modern , dream interpretation , agency
- 주제(기타) 영어와문학
- 설명문(URI) https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002710262
- 등재 KCI등재
- 발행기관 한국중세근세영문학회
- 발행년도 2021
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000179914
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.17054/jmemes.2021.31.1.171
초록/요약
This essay offers a historically engaged discussion of divine dreams in post- Reformation England. While dreams are part of ordinary human experience, their status and meaning are shaped by cultural contexts. Divine dreams, in particular, were the subject of intense scrutiny in seventeenth-century England. While many post- Reformation writers tried to establish criteria by which one might define the origin, significance, and verity of supernatural dreams, the status of divine dreams was ambiguous. It is the ambiguity, however, that invited early moderns to actively engage themselves with issues of agency and of literary representation in interpreting the meanings of what they believed were divinely prompted or truth-telling dreams. To some pious early modern Protestants, skills developed in the constant search for evidence of saving grace and spiritual truth could be applied equally to the signs provided by dreams, enabling them to cut through the knot of ambivalence that had surrounded dream interpretation.
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