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Night journeys : the power of dreams in transatlantic Quaker culture
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- Creator
- Carla Gerona
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- x, 290 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813923109, 0813923107
- OCLC
- ocm55044749
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280) and index.
- 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?