Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860
ISBN-10
0521826993
ISBN-13
9780521826990
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2003-08-07
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Anna Johnston

Description

Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism, and race.

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