Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century

252 Pages·2014·2.669 MB·English

by  Ann Marie Plane

Dreams and the Invisible World
in Colonial New England
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Dreams and the Invisible World
in Colonial New England
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Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century
Ann Marie Plane
University of PennsylvAniA Press
Philadelphia
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library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Plane, Ann Marie.
Dreams and the invisible world in colonial new england : indians, colonists,
and the seventeenth century / Ann Marie Plane. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-0-8122-4635-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Colonists—new england—Psychology—History—17th century. 2. indians of
north America—Colonization—Psychological aspects—new england—
History—17th century. 3. Dreams—new england—History—17th century.
4. visions—new england—History—17th century. 5. new england—
Colonization—Psychological aspects—History—17th century. i. title.
f7.P55 2014
974'.02—dc23 2014009313
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For my parents,
Robert A. Plane and Mary Moore Plane,
who have always supported my dreams
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And i hope that in one thing, . . . i have performed the part of
an Historian, viz. in endeavouring to relate things truly and
impartially, and doing the best i could that i might not lead the
Reader into a Mistake. History is indeed in it self a profitable
study. . . . And there is holy scripture to encourage in a work of
this nature, for what was the Book of the Warrs of the Lord, num.,
21. 14? And that Book of Jasher which we read of in Joshuah
and in Samuel? yea and the Book of the Cronicles, mentioned in
the Book of Kings. . . . What were these Books, but the faithfull
Records of the providentiall Dispensations of God, in the dayes of
old? . . . And i earnestly wish that some effectual course may be
taken (before it is too late) that a just History of New- England, be
written and published to the world. That is a thing that hath been
often spoken of, but was never done to this day; and yet the longer
it is deferred, the more difficulty will there be in effecting of it.
— increase Mather, Preface to A Brief History of the
Warr with the Indians in New- England (1676)
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Contents
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Preface
xi
Introduction
1
Chapter 1
English Dream Belief and Practice in the Tudor- Stuart World
15
Chapter 2
Representation of Indigenous Dreaming at Contact and Beyond
41
Chapter 3
Lived Religion and Embedded Emotion in
Midcentury Dream Reporting
69
Chapter 4
Dreams and Visions in King Philip’s War
104
Chapter 5
Emotion, Embodiment, and Context
127
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x Contents
Chapter 6
Native Dream Reporting as Cultural Resistance
154
Conclusion
172
List of Abbreviations
179
Notes
183
Index
225
Acknowledgments
231
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