The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3350643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Crawford (0000-0001-6598-3835, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1921694 |
| OpenAlex | W2329308780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
N I765 Nathan Cole (17II-I783), a carpenter. and farmer of Kensington, 1 Connecticut,1 set down in unschooled prose his spiritual joys and sorrows of the preceding twenty-five years. Cole's Spiritual Travels, here printed in full for the first time, provides a rare opportunity study the impact of the Great Awakening on the life and thought of a New England layman. It illustrates the emotional response the preaching of George Whitefield; it contains a classic account of an eighteenth-century conversion; and it offers an intimate insight into the experience of the Separates in Connecticut, among whom Cole was prominent. In I950 Leonard W. Labaree remarked that much of the Spiritual Travels is to introspective . .. merit publication. More recently, Alan Heimert has called Cole's memoir one of the more remarkable documents of the intellectual life of eighteenth-century America.2 The difference between these two appraisals measures a major change in historical styles and interests over the past quarter-century
Art · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2005 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |