Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931
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Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931
(Studies in American thought and culture / series editor, Paul S. Boyer)
University of Wisconsin Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index
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Description
When Americans today think of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers, they may picture the smiling figure on boxes of oatmeal. But since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values and social habits have set them apart from other Americans. And their example-whether real or imagined-has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation.
Portrayals of Quakers-from dangerous and anarchic figures in seventeenth-century theological debates to moral exemplars in twentieth-century theatre and film (Grace Kelly in High Noon, for example)-reflected attempts by writers, speechmakers, and dramatists to grapple with the troubling social issues of the day. As foils to more widely held religious, political, and moral values, members of the Society of Friends became touchstones in national discussions about pacifism, abolition, gender equality, consumer culture, and modernity.
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, theatre, 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular Books and Catholic Criticism 2 Father Hecker's Eclectic Americanism 3 Entering the Mainstream: The Fiction of Jedediah Huntington and Anna Hanson Dorsey 4 Sentimental Catechism: James Gibbons and Literary Devotionalism 5 Trading Evangelism for Feminism: Kate O'Flaherty Chopin's Bayou Catholics 6 \u0022A Kind Woman in Heaven\u0022: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop Conclusion: Literary Catholicism and the Modern Turn Notes Works Cited Index
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