The English dream vision: anatomy of a form

1. Dream and apocalypse: The dream-as-narrative-event

The apocalypse

2. Medieval dream authorities: Classical scepticism

The encyclopedists

Select medieval authorities

Assessing the evidence

3. Origins: A rhetoric and a form: Augustine and Macrobius

Freedom in parody: The Roman de la Rose

A psychology and a metaphysics: nominalism

4. Structure: The shape of the poem

The poem and the readers

5. Applications: three deconstructive dream visions: The Book of the duchess and the discourse of sentiment

Pearl and the discourse of eschatology

The Hous of fame and the end of lore

Epilogue: "It was no dreme: I lay brode waking".