This collection of essays explores the dream-discourse and the literary dreams of the Enlightenment. The first part discusses the dream-cognition of 18th-century encyclopaedists, philosophers, theologians, doctors, anthropologists, and, more specially, of Swedenborg and Herder; the second part analyses dreams in novels, satires, plays, and poetry, with special studies on erotic dreaming and on Goethe. The volume closes with a comprehensive bibliography.