Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England : : Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century / / Ann Marie Plane.
From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions to devilish terrors, dreams inspired, challenged, and soothed the men and women of seventeenth-century New England. English colonists considered dreams to be fraught messages sent by nature, God, or the Devil; Indians of the region often welcomed...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. English Dream Belief and Practice in the Tudor- Stuart World
- Chapter 2 Representation of Indigenous Dreaming at Contact and Beyond
- Chapter 3. Lived Religion and Embedded Emotion in Midcentury Dream Reporting
- Chapter 4. Dreams and Visions in King Philip's War
- Chapter 5. Emotion, Embodiment, and Context
- Chapter 6. Native Dream Reporting as Cultural Resistance
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments