Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Doug Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question.

I Dreams of History An Introduction FIELDING QUESTIONS 2 Fetishisms and Renaissances 3 Dreams of Field Early Modern (Dis)Positions 4 Toward a Topographic Imaginary Early Modern Paris 5 "To Please the Wiser Sort" Violence and Philosophy in Hamlet 6 Abel Drugger's Sign and the Fetishes of no Material Culture GRAPHIC IMAGINATIONS 7 Erotic Islands Contours of Villon's Printed Testament (1489), 8 The Interpretation of Dreams, circa 1610, 9 The Melancholy of Print Love's Labour's Lost 10 George Herbert and the Scene of Writing DEPTH PERCEPTIONS 11 The Anus in Coriolanus 12 Breaking the Mirror Stage 13 The Inside Story 14 Sorcery and Subjectivity in Early Modern Discourses of Witchcraft LEGACIES, 15 Weeping for Hecuba 16 Second-Best Bed