Night Journeys: The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture

by Carla Gerona

Early modern Quakers looked to their dreams to gain spiritual insight and developed a potent system of dreamwork that acted simultaneously as a device for gaining and retaining authority and as a democratizing force. Night Journeys recounts how Quakers on both sides of the Atlantic turned their sleeping experiences into powerful stories that advanced a more inclusive--but still imperial--vision of colonial and Revolutionary America.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923107
• ISBN13: 9780813923109
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher