Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnson reveals how missionaries were caught between imperial and religious interests through an examination of texts published by the largest and most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are also examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relationship to gender, colonialism, and race.

Author: Anna Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/03/2007
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780521049559

About the Author
Johnston, Anna: - Anna Johnston is Lecturer in Australian and Postcolonial Literature in the School of English, Journalism, and European Languages at the University of Tasmania. She is the co-editor of In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire (Peter Lang 2002) with Helen Gilbert, and has published articles on missionary writing, postcolonial literature, and autobiography.

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