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Author Plane, Ann Marie, 1964- author.

Title Dreams and the invisible world in colonial New England : Indians, colonists, and the seventeenth century / Ann Marie Plane
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages)
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
Summary Ann Marie Plane explores the significance of dreams in seventeenth-century life. Touching on race, gender, emotions, and interior life, this book treats colonist and Indian experiences and analyzes both the content of the dreams themselves and the act of dream reporting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Visions -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Dreams -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Indians of North America -- Colonization -- New England -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 17th century
Colonists -- New England -- Psychology -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Colonization -- Psychological aspects
Dreams
Visions
SUBJECT New England -- Colonization -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 17th century
Subject New England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812290547
0812290542