Missionary Writing and Empire, 18001860

Informationen zum Autor Anna Johnston loves to write. She has been writing her whole life. She is married to the man of her dreams. They have two amazing children together. A son Gabriel and a daughter Hayli. Anna deals with depression and anxiety every day and finds comfort in writing. Zusammenfassung Anna Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures! caught between imperial and religious interests. She examines texts from Indian and Australian missions to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender! colonialism and race. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: writing missionaries; Part I. The Mission Statement: 1. The British Empire, colonialism and missionary activity; 2. Gender, domesticity and colonial evangelisation; Part II. The London Missionary Society in India: 3. Empire, India and evangelisation; 4. Missionary writing in India; 5. Imperialism, suffragism and nationalism; Part III. The London Missionary Society in Polynesia: 6. Polynesian missions and the European imaginary; 7. Missionary writing in Polynesia; Part IV. The London Missionary Society in Australia: 8. The Australian colonies and empire; 9. Missionary writing in Australia; Conclusion: missionary writing, the imperial archive and postcolonial politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna Johnston, Anna (University of Tasmania) Johnston
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Beer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.08.2003
• EAN: 9780521826990
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82699-0
• Seiten: 280
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft