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"Teach Me Dreams delves into the dreamworld of ordinary Americans and finds that as their self-perception increased, transforming them on a personal level, so did a revolutionary spirit that wrought momentous political changes. Mechal Sobel considers dreams recorded in the life narratives of one hundred people, revealing the America of the Revolutionary Era to have been a truly dream-infused culture in which analysis of dreams was encouraged, and subsequent personal reevaluation was striking.
Sobel uses a wealth of information - letters, diaries, and over two hundred published autobiographies from a wide range of "ordinary" people: black, white, male, female. In these accounts, many previously neglected by historians, dreamers explain how their nighttime adventures opened their eyes to aspects of themselves, or unveiled new paths they should take both personally and politically.".
"Sobel offers insights into how early Americans understood their lives. Her analysis of the dreams and lives of ordinary Revolutionary-Era people demonstrates links between dreaming, self-reevaluation, and participation in the radically changing politics of the time. This book will appeal to specialists in the fields of American and African-American history, and anyone interested in dreams and self-development."--BOOK JACKET.
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American prose literature, Dreams, Emotions, History, History and criticism, Influence, Self-perception, Social aspects, Social aspects of Dreams, Social aspects of Emotions, Social conditions, Social interaction, Sources, United states, social conditions, to 1865, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783Places
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Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era
2021, Princeton University Press
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Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era
September 3, 2002, Princeton University Press
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Teach me dreams: the search for self in the revolutionary era
2000, Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-355) and index.
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