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...

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Main Author:	Johnston, Anna 1972- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 38
Subjects:	London Missionary Society / History / 19th century London Missionary Society Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1800-1860 Geschichte Missions, English / India / History / 19th century Missions, English / Polynesia / History / 19th century Missions, English / Australia / History / 19th century Imperialism / History / 19th century Imperialismus Australien Indien
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 262 pages)
ISBN:	9780511550324
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511550324