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Doomsayers : Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202380
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DoomsayersDDC classification:
  • 231.7/45/097309033
LOC classification:
  • BR520 -- .J87 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: The Making of a Prophet -- 2: Varieties of Prophecy: Fortune-Tellers, Visionists, and Millenarians -- 3: Body and Soul: The Epistemology of Revelation -- 4: Millenarian Politics: Language and the Public Sphere -- 5: A Rogues' Gallery: Richard Brothers and Nimrod Hughes -- 6: Women of Revelation: Jemima Wilkinson and Joanna Southcott -- Epilogue -- Index.
Summary: From the staged debates over religious enthusiasm to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: The Making of a Prophet -- 2: Varieties of Prophecy: Fortune-Tellers, Visionists, and Millenarians -- 3: Body and Soul: The Epistemology of Revelation -- 4: Millenarian Politics: Language and the Public Sphere -- 5: A Rogues' Gallery: Richard Brothers and Nimrod Hughes -- 6: Women of Revelation: Jemima Wilkinson and Joanna Southcott -- Epilogue -- Index.

From the staged debates over religious enthusiasm to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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