The making of the Scottish dream-vision / Kylie Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Kylie, author.

Series:

British Academy monograph

A British Academy monograph

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams in literature.

Scottish literature--To 1700--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

Visions in literature.

Scotland--Intellectual life.

Scotland.

Scotland--Civilization.

Scottish literature--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press

Place of Publication:

London : The British Academy, 2026.

Summary:

"The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision provides the first sustained book-length study of Scotland's engagement with one of the most significant literary forms of the medieval world. The book situates the dream-vision at the heart of Scotland's literary and intellectual culture, showing how it developed across several centuries, languages, and genres. Moving beyond the traditional focus on dream-poetry, this study demonstrates how the dream-vision intersected with romance, chronicle, epic, and theological writing, reshaping our understanding of Scotland's pre-Reformation literary canon. Close analysis of both manuscript and print traditions traces how Scottish writers and readers reimagined the dream-vision, establishing a distinctive and enduring contribution. By asking who read these texts, when, and how, the book sheds new light on the circulation, reception, and cultural function of the dream-vision in Scotland. In so doing, The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision seeks to open new methodological and comparative pathways for exploring the global history of the dream-vision." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Prior engagements: Scotland's early reception of dream and vision

2. The Kingis Quair and its manuscript context

3. Bower's Scotichronicon and the prose-Latin dream-vision

4. Prophetic and nationalist dream-visions

5. Rethinking Scotland's amatory dream-vision

Epilogue: 'Mak vpwark heirof and cloyss our buke'

Bibliography

Index

Index of manuscripts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1805966278

9781805966272

OCLC:

1551477952

Publisher Number:

CIPO000327778