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4 - Literature

from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

By
Nancy Jiwon Cho
Edited by
Stephen W. Angell  and
Pink Dandelion
Stephen W. Angell
Affiliation:
Earlham School of Religion, Indiana
Pink Dandelion
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Summary

Friends’ attitudes to literary works have altered substantially from the inception of the movement to the present day. While early Friends believed that writing should be simple and honest -- and, consequently, that artful genres were at best frivolous and at worst diabolical -- many Quakers today believe that God is immanent in all forms of human expression. Recent Quaker writers have written novels, ghost stories, murder mysteries, science fiction and experimental poetry, all literary forms that earlier Friends would have denounced as profane or vain.
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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism , pp. 69 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Suggested Further Reading

Gross, P. and Lerner, L. (2012) ‘Talking in All, A Conversation on Poetry and Quakerism Between Philip Gross and Laurence Lerner’, Quaker Studies 17:1, 110–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hagglund, B. (2013) ‘Quakers and Print Culture’, in The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, ed. by Angell, S. and Dandelion, P., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 477–91.Google Scholar
Hood, J. (ed.) (2016) Quakers and Literature, Longmeadow, MA: Friends Association for Higher Education.Google Scholar
Wright, L. (1932) The Literary Life of the Early Friends, 1650–1725, New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar

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