Book Summary
nning 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.
Book Details
| Book Name | Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers In American Culture, 1650-1950 |
| Author | James Emmett Ryan |
| Publisher | University Of Wisconsin Press (Jun 2009) |
| ISBN | 9780299231743 |
| Pages | 285 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 982 |