123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Dreams, Trances, and Ghostly Apparitions in the Anglo-Atlantic: The Seventeenth Century

Dreams, Trances, and Ghostly Apparitions in the Anglo-Atlantic: The Seventeenth Century

AHA Session 117

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Clinton Suite (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Mechal Sobel, University of Haifa

Papers:

"Liminal Spaces": Dreams, Death, and the Disorderly Dead
Janine Rivière, University of Toronto

Dreams, Prayers, and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Early Modern English Alchemy
Walter W. Woodward, University of Connecticut

Black Dogs and Burnt Bodies: Spectres, Night Visions, and Gender in the Reported Dreams of Colonial New England
Ann Marie Plane, University of California

Comment:

Carla Gerona, Georgia Institute of Technology

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