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Author:

Werner, Winter Jade, author.

Title:

Missionary cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century British literature / Winter Jade Werner.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1800-1899
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Missionaries in literature.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
English fiction.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Missionaries in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The only true cosmopolite -- The cosmopolitan idea in early nineteenth-century missionary societies -- Robert Southey and the case for Christian colonialism -- Universal kinship and Jane Eyre -- The missionary, Luxima, and the forging of a post-"mutiny" cosmopolitanism -- Coda: The afterlives of missionary cosmopolitanism.

Summary:

"Examines the effects of missionary evangelicalism on cosmopolitanism through the nineteenth-century novel, including works such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and lesser-known works by Robert Southey and Sydney Owenson"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

ISBN:

0814214266
9780814214268

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1114772319

LCCN:

2019052454

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)