Dreams, dreamers, and visions : the early modern Atlantic world

Foreword. Xanadu: Dreams of the Dark Side of Paradise -Anthony F. C. Wallace  Introduction: The Literatures of Dreaming -Ann Marie Plane and Leslie Tuttle  I. EUROPEAN THEORIES, POLITICS, AND EXPERIENCES OF DREAMING Dreaming Chapter 1. The Inner Eye: Early Modern Dreaming and Disembodied Sight -Mary Baine Campbell Chapter 2. Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the "Nightmare" in Premodern England -Janine Riviere Chapter 3. Competition and Confirmation in the Iberian Prophetic Community: The 1589 Invasion of Portugal in the Dreams of Lucrecia de Leon -Maria V. Jordan Chapter 4. The Peasant Who Went to Hell: Dreams and Visions in Early Modern Spain -Luis R. Corteguer Chapter 5. Dreams and Prophecies: The Fifth Empire of Father Antonio Vieira and Messianic Visions of the Braganca Dynasty in Seventeenth-Century Portugal and Brazil -Luis Filipe Silverio Lima (trans. Anna Luisa Geselbracht)  II. INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTER Chapter 6. Flying Like an Eagle: Franciscan and Caddo Dreams and Visions -Carla Gerona Chapter 7. Dream-Visions and Divine Truth in Early Modern Hispanic America -Andrew Redden Chapter 8. French Jesuits and Indian Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France -Leslie Tuttle 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 -Emma Anderson  III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: PROPHECY AND REVIVAL Chapter 10. The Unbounded Self: Dreaming and Identity in the British Enlightenment -Phyllis Mack Chapter 11. Visions of Handsome Lake: Seneca Dreams, Prophecy, and the Second Great Awakening -Matthew Dennis  Notes Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments