![]() ![]() It may seem at first peculiar that but one of the eight represents a Tory viewpoint. “Gentleman of Philadelphia” is, however, often just ambiguous. Of the eight visions discussed, all but Solemn Predictions, 1787, seem to be saying something about either America’s struggle for a kinder treatment at the hands of England, or later, something about the shooting struggle, and its eventual outcome. The eight visions discussed in this essay are not merely representative, they are about all there are, and they, in turn, are, through their own publication dates, the determinants of the limiting dates of the “age of visions”: 1769–1791. Indeed, so few are the examples of spurious visions that tracing their time on Earth can only be measured by finding an arbitrary beginning, and an arbitrary end-point. While research would reveal many “visions,” few of them would be of the kind described here. It was not representative of “valid,” religious, or quietistic visions its purpose was primarily to voice a political sentiment, explain natural phenomena, or do both.Īs a genre, the vision lacked many of the mechanical conventions found in any genre but it did have a consistent approach and style, and a uniformity of plot and theme in its different occurrences-enough so that one might easily say that here was a form, but a brief and fleeting one, and one given rise to by the needs of the times. The Misbehavior of Miles Greenwood (1736–1814) of SalemĪ Survey of Apocryphal Visions in Late Eighteenth-Century AmericaĭURING the two decades immediately preceding and following the American Revolution’s beginning, a small but colorful movement in American Literature was seen to make its appearance it was the vision.The Great Seals Deputed of Massachusetts Bay.Shadrack Ireland and The “Immortals” of Colonial New England.True Confessions and Dying Warnings in Colonial New England.John Cotton’s Treatise on the Duration of the Lord’s Day. ![]()
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