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• W2201604404 abstract "Doomsayers: Anglo American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution. By Susan Juster. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 276. Illustrations. Cloth. $39.95)This delightful and provocative book describes a dimension of Anglo-American culture typically lost from view. Susan Juster delves into examples of over 300 so-called she has identified who were active in England and America between 1765 and 1815. Juster has scoured through the publications of the period looking for these often obscure figures-a prodigious act of research that graphically reaffirms the vitality of popular religion in the Age of Enlightenment. While retaining the bizarre and humorous elements of their stories, she also admirably brings the underlying desperation and devotion of her subjects to light. The concluding chapter offers an especially poignant rendering of the false pregnancy of Joanna Southcott, one of many examples of Juster's sympathetic understanding and narrative skill.Juster's analysis underscores the way her prophets exploited new opportunities for publicity afforded by the burgeoning media of the day. They frequently wrote tracts pitched to a popular audience arid conducted urban street performances that drew crowds-tactics that frequently gained the attention of newspapers arid magazines. Juster insightfully situates such methods in the context of two already familiar interpretive frameworks: market capitalism and the public sphere. The literature on the culture of capitalism has been particularly fruitful in defining themes of commodincation and salesmanship, themes that have been previously stressed by historians of the First and second Great Awakenings and which juster also uses to great effect when portraying the most persuasive peddlers of revolutionary-era prophecy. To her credit, she identifies outright swindlers without getting bogged down in the quagmire of determining who was sincere and who was merely self-serving.Paired with this emphasis on enterprise and advertising is Juster's invocation of the concept of the public sphere. Her emphasis upon the print media of broadsides, pamphlets, and books that enabled the widespread dissemination of popular prophecy places her study alongside the abundant scholarship of the past decade utilizing Jurgen Habermas's theories about eighteenth-century civic discourse. For Habermas, however, the public sphere was at once progressively proto-democratic and rationalist. Juster's prophets at times expressed radical political views, and some of them, such as James Bicheno, used the vocabulary of the Enlightenment. One chapter of the book is devoted to political aspirations, and Juster distinguishes those who espoused republican ideological commitments from those (like most of the women) who did not. Most ofjuster's figures could scarcely have departed more from a liberal model of discursive rationality, however, as they employed the communicative resources of the public sphere to claim mysterious sources of knowledge and to herald the coming of supernatural events. Typically they were far too infatuated with their own superior powers of prediction to entertain the opinions of others. Their relationship to the future of democracy lay neither in egalitariamsm nor in rationality but in their often shrewd and sensationalist mass marketing. Juster's borrowing of the term public sphere does not systematically engage theoretical issues, but her playful depiction of the flamboyant, sometimes feminized, underside of the Enlightenment is ridden with such delicious ironies.Another great strength of the book is its trans-Atlantic sweep. The English prophet Ann Lee herself crossed the sea, and many writings by others swiftly made the voyage to America in printed form. As Juster makes clear, rampant prophetic speculation infused the culture of the Atlantic world-at least the northern half of it. Yet this geographical spread also at times leaves the impression of an Anglo-American sameness that obfuscates national differences. …" @default.
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