Title: Night journeys : the power of dreams in transatlantic Quaker culture /
Authors: Gerona, Carla, 1962-
Publisher: University of Virginia Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Dreams Religious aspects Society of Friends History; Quakers History; Dreams Religious aspects Society of Friends History; Quakers History
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?