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000340926 1001_ $$aRyan, James Emmett.
000340926 24510 $$aImaginary friends :$$brepresenting Quakers in American culture, 1650-1950 /$$cJames Emmett Ryan.
000340926 260__ $$aMadison, Wis. :$$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$$cc2009.
000340926 300__ $$axii, 285 p. ;$$c23 cm.
000340926 440_0 $$aStudies in American thought and culture.
000340926 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000340926 5050_ $$aIllustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:  National identity, representation, and genre -- 1:  Quaker religion in colonial New England -- 2:  Political theory and Quaker community in the early republic -- 3:  Chronicles of friendship: Quaker historiography in the early republic -- 4:  Quaker biography in transatlantic context -- 5:  Representing Quakers in American fiction -- 6:  Staging Quakerism: theater and cinema -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
000340926 520__ $$aFrom the Publisher: When Americans today think of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers, they may picture the smiling figure on boxes of oatmeal.  But since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values and social habits have set them apart from other Americans.  And their example-whether real or imagined-has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation.  Portrayals of Quakers-from dangerous and anarchic figures in seventeenth-century theological debates to moral exemplars in twentieth-century theater and film (Grace Kelly in High Noon, for example)-reflected attempts by writers, speechmakers, and dramatists to grapple with the troubling social issues of the day.  As foils to more widely held religious, political, and moral values, members of the Society of Friends became touchstones in national discussions about pacifism, abolition, gender equality, consumer culture, and modernity.  Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through the shifting representations of Quaker life in a wide range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film.  It illustrates the ways that, during the long history of Quakerism in the United States, these "imaginary" Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself.
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