Title: The dream as a metaphor for altered states of consciousness in the fiction of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
Subjects: Altered states of consciousness, American literature, Dreams in literature, History and criticism, Knowledge, Metaphor, Psychology
People: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Herman Melville (1819-1891), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Time periods: 19th century