Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
-
Select format
-
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 10 December 2009
- 07 August 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780511550324
- 9780521826990
- 9780521049559
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.591kg, 280 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.416kg, 280 Pages
- Subjects:
- Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
You may already have access via personal or institutional login- Subjects:
- Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
Show more authors 
You may already have access via personal or institutional login
Book 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. These texts provide a fascinating commentary on nineteenth-century evangelism and colonialism, and illuminate complex relationships between white imperial subjects, white colonial subjects, and non-white colonial subjects. With their reformist, and often prurient interest in sexual and familial relationships, missionary texts focused imperial attention on gender and domesticity in colonial cultures. Johnston contends that in doing so they rewrote imperial expansion as a moral allegory and confronted British ideologies of gender, race and class. 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.
Reviews
‘… Johnston impresses us with her thorough knowledge of recent secondary sources on mission … informative introductions for those readers new to the topic of foreign missions.‘
Source: Annotated Bibliography for English Studies
‘All in all this book offers a welcome breath of complicating fresh air into the frequently cliché-ridden scholarship on missionary writing and it amply demonstrates that literary scholars, as well as historians and anthropologists, have a contribution to make to the study of missionaries.‘
Source: Studies in Travel Writing
' … well-researched and informative book …'
Source: Modern Language Review
Contents
Contents
Metrics
Altmetric attention score
Full text views
Full text views helpTotal number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...
* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.
Usage data cannot currently be displayed.
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Why this information is here
This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.
Accessibility Information
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.