{"product_id":"missionary-writing-and-empire-1800-1860-hardback-9780521826990","title":"Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860 (Hardback) 9780521826990","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMissionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnna Johnston (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521826990, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 August 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 2 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.591 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e' … well-researched and informative book …' Modern Language Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAnna 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: writing missionaries\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Mission Statement: 1. The British Empire, colonialism and missionary activity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Gender, domesticity and colonial evangelisation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The London Missionary Society in India: 3. Empire, India and evangelisation\u003cbr\u003e 4. Missionary writing in India\u003cbr\u003e 5. Imperialism, suffragism and nationalism\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The London Missionary Society in Polynesia: 6. Polynesian missions and the European imaginary\u003cbr\u003e 7. Missionary writing in Polynesia\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The London Missionary Society in Australia: 8. The Australian colonies and empire\u003cbr\u003e 9. Missionary writing in Australia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: missionary writing, the imperial archive and postcolonial politics\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265183863064,"sku":"9780521826990","price":91.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521826990i.jpg?v=1692020279","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/missionary-writing-and-empire-1800-1860-hardback-9780521826990","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}