Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Women's Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century

Jane Eyre's Missionary Sisters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Until now, the female missionary has appeared to be absent from 19th century literature. This book provides new readings of texts such as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre to reveal the presence of the female missionary in 19th century writing, arguing that the character influenced cultural debates about religion, gender and domesticity

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Produktdetails

• The Nineteenth Century Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781032366227
• ISBN-10: 1032366222
• Artikelnr.: 65889789

Autorenporträt

Angharad Eyre currently teaches in the English Department at Queen Mary University of London and lives in the city with her husband and two small children.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Brontë 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