Women's writing and mission in the nineteenth century : Jane Eyre's missionary sisters
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Women's writing and mission in the nineteenth century : Jane Eyre's missionary sisters
(Nineteenth century series)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-245) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In addition to providing an exciting new reading of Charlotte Bronte's classic, Jane Eyre, the book's methodology includes close reading a range of archival and underexamined published sources, providing readers with new understandings of Bronte's work and contexts.
The book's range enables a story to be told about the enduring influence of the phenomenon of the female missionary on women biographers in the early decades of the nineteenth century, on famous women writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Olive Schreiner, and on women's college culture at the turn of the century.
In unearthing important historical information on the representation of the female missionary, the book provides a valuable introduction to the under-explored topic of nineteenth-century missionary women, enriching knowledge of the period and opening up new areas for research.
For the first time, this book explores literary representations of the nineteenth-century female missionary in the context of the new imperial history as well as histories of gender and religion.
The book's challenge of an easy linear relationship between religion and gender, and between the domestic and missionary female represents a significant contribution to studies of nineteenth-century literature, gender and religion.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Prologue - Ann Judson and Harriet Newell: Immortalising the Female Missionary
Part I: 1830-1870
1. Tales of Female Missionary Sacrifice: Tracts, Collective Biographies and Newsletters
2. Missionary Self-Sacrifice in the Domestic Sphere: The Tracts and Novels of Martha Sherwood, Hesba Stretton and Dinah Craik
3. Novel Approaches to Missionary Sacrifice: Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell
Part II: 1880-1900
4. Missionaries of the New: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner and Margaret Harkness
5. Women, Religion and Power: University Women's Missionary Writing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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