Imaginary Friends : representing Quakers in American culture, 1650-1950 /

Ryan, James Emmett.

Imaginary Friends : representing Quakers in American culture, 1650-1950 / James Emmett Ryan. - Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009. - xii, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Studies in American thought and culture . - Studies in American thought and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-271) and index.

Introduction: national identity, representation, and genre -- Quaker religion in colonial New England -- Political theory and Quaker community in the early republic -- Chronicles of friendship: Quaker historiography in the early republic -- Quaker biography in transatlantic context -- Representing Quakers in American fiction -- Staging Quakerism: theater and cinema.

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