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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James Emmett Ryan is associate professor of English at Auburn University.

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"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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