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Author:

Gerona, Carla, 1962-

Title:

Night journeys : the power of dreams in transatlantic Quaker culture / Carla Gerona.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

x, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dreams--History--Society of Friends--History--17th century.
Quakers--History--17th century.
Dreams--History--Society of Friends--History--18th century.
Quakers--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-280) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "mining dreams" -- "The large tree stood for the whole body" : Quakers and dreams -- "Taking the king's house at Greenwich" : Quaker dreaming in mid-seventeenth-century England -- "Like a horse by the bridle" : mapping a new world in the second half of the seventeenth century -- "A large sign on which was written shame" : building discipline in the British colonies during the early eighteenth century -- "Hast thou forgotten the shining of the sun?" : a Quaker awakening to problems of empire at midcentury -- "The people now jangling in a defiled way" : stresses and separations during the Revolutionary years -- "A great effect upon my spirits" : personal and printed dreams during the early Republic -- Conclusion : the end of a prophetic tradition?

ISBN:

9780813923109
0813923107 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55044749

LCCN:

2004007941

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)