Women's writing and mission in the nineteenth century Jane Eyre's missionary sisters
Women's writing and mission in the nineteenth century: Jane Eyre's missionary sisters

"Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missi...

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1. Verfasser: Eyre, Angharad (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge 2023
Schriftenreihe:The nineteenth century series 1
Schlagworte:
Frauenliteratur
Englisch
Missionarin
Women missionaries in literature
Femininity in literature
English literature / 19th century / History and criticism
English literature / Women authors / History and criticism
Literary criticism
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Zusammenfassung:"Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and life-writing, to canonical Victorian literature, New Woman fiction and women's college writing. Nineteenth-century women writers wove the tropes of the female missionary figure and plot into their domestic fiction, and the female missionary themes of religious self-sacrifice and heroism formed the subjectivity of these writers and their characters. Offering an alternative narrative for the development of women writers and early feminism, as well as a new reading of Jane Eyre, this book adds to the debate about whether religious women in the nineteenth century could actually be radical and feminist"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 250 Seiten 7 Illustrationen
ISBN:9781032366227
9781032366234

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