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
James Emmett Ryan is associate professor of English at Auburn University.
"This thoughtful, thoroughly researched work looks at how writers have used Quakers - as heretics, as reformers, as symbols of simplicity and goodness, always as counterpoints to a larger American culture." - Thomas Hamm, author of The Transformation of American Quakerism"
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