TY - BOOK AU - Plane,Ann Marie AU - Tuttle,Leslie AU - Wallace,Anthony F.C. TI - Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World SN - 9780812208047 AV - BF1078.D737 2013 U1 - 154.6/309 PY - 2013/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Dreams-North Atlantic Region-History-16th century KW - Dreams-North Atlantic Region-History-17th century KW - Dreams-North Atlantic Region-History-18th century KW - Dream interpretation-North Atlantic Region-History-16th century KW - Dream interpretation-North Atlantic Region-History-17th century KW - Dream interpretation-North Atlantic Region-History-18th century KW - Visions-North Atlantic Region-History-16th century KW - Visions-North Atlantic Region-History-17th century KW - Visions-North Atlantic Region-History-18th century KW - North Atlantic Region-Civilization-16th century KW - North Atlantic Region-Civilization-17th century KW - North Atlantic Region-Civilization-18th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword. Xanadu: Dreams of the Dark Side of Paradise -- Introduction: The Literatures of Dreaming -- Part I: European Theories, Politics, and Experiences of Dreaming -- Chapter 1 The Inner Eye: Early Modern Dreaming and Disembodied Sight -- Chapter 2 Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the ''Nightmare' in Premodern England -- Chapter 3 Competition and Confirmation in the Iberian Prophetic Community: The 1589 Invasion of Portugal in the Dreams of Lucrecia de León -- Chapter 4 The Peasant Who Went to Hell: Dreams and Visions in Early Modern Spain -- Chapter 5 Dreams and Prophecies: The Fifth Empire of Father Antonio Vieira and Messianic Visions of the Bragança Dynasty in Seventeenth-Century Portugal and Brazil -- Part II: Intercultural Encounter -- Chapter 6 Flying Like an Eagle: Franciscan and Caddo Dreams and Visions -- Chapter 7 Dream-Visions and Divine Truth in Early Modern Hispanic America -- Chapter 8 French Jesuits and Indian Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France -- Chapter 9 ''My Spirit Found a Unity with This Holy Man'': A Nun's Visions and the Negotiation of Pain and Power in Seventeenth-Century New France -- Part III: The Eighteenth Century: Prophecy and Revival -- Chapter 10 The Unbounded Self: Dreaming and Identity in the British Enlightenment -- Chapter 11 Visions of Handsome Lake: Seneca Dreams, Prophecy, and the Second Great Awakening -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments N2 - In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern Atlantic world, illustrating how both indigenous and European methods of understanding dream phenomena became central to contests over religious and political power UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442161 ER -