Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: writing missionaries; Part I. The Mission Statement: 1. The British Empire, colonialism and missionary activity; 2. Gender, domesticity and colonial evangelisation; Part II. The London Missionary Society in India: 3. Empire, India and evangelisation; 4. Missionary writing in India; 5. Imperialism, suffragism and nationalism; Part III. The London Missionary Society in Polynesia: 6. Polynesian missions and the European imaginary; 7. Missionary writing in Polynesia; Part IV. The London Missionary Society in Australia: 8. The Australian colonies and empire; 9. Missionary writing in Australia; Conclusion: missionary writing, the imperial archive and postcolonial politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'... Johnston impresses us with her thorough knowledge of recent secondary sources on mission ... informative introductions for those readers new to the topic of foreign missions.' Annotated Bibliography for English Studies 'All in all this book offers a welcome breath of complicating fresh air into the frequently cliche-ridden scholarship on missionary writing and it amply demonstrates that literary scholars, as well as historians and anthropologists, have a contribution to make to the study of missionaries.' Studies in Travel Writing ' ... well-researched and informative book ...' Modern Language Review