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

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From 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 fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ryan, James Emmett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2009.
Colección:Studies in American thought and culture.
Temas:
Society of Friends
Quakers > United States.
Quakers > United States > History.
Quakers > États-Unis.
Quakers > États-Unis > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christianity > Quaker.
Quakers
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations
  • 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.

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