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IMAGINARY FRIENDS
IMAGINARY FRIENDS
Subtitle:
Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650-1950
Book Category:
Social Science > General
Author:
Ryan, James Emmett
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
978029231743
Price:
USD 26.95
Publication Year:
2009

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Book Description

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 U.S., 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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Choice OAT; ForeWord Magazine; New England Quarterly; Journal of American History; Churck History; American Historical Review

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