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

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.