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Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 1 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 2 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM 22814 Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England " Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century Ann Marie Plane University of PennsylvAniA Press Philadelphia 22814 Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 3 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM Copyright © 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104- 4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United states of America on acid- f ree paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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 Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 4 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM 22814 For my parents, Robert A. Plane and Mary Moore Plane, who have always supported my dreams 22814 Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 5 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 6 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM 22814 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) " 22814 Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 7 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 8 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM 22814 Contents " 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 22814 Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 9 22814 6/10/14 8:49 AM x Contents Chapter 6 Native Dream Reporting as Cultural Resistance 154 Conclusion 172 List of Abbreviations 179 Notes 183 Index 225 Acknowledgments 231 Plane_DreamsAndInvisibleWorld_FM.indd 10 2222881144 6/10/14 8:49 AM 22814
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