Laura M. Stevens

The Poor Indians

British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering.

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Produktdetails

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780812219678
• ISBN-10: 0812219678
• Artikelnr.: 21993826

Autorenporträt

Laura M. Stevens teaches English at the University of Tulsa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "The Common Bowels of Pity to the Miserable"
1. Gold for Glass, Seeds to Fruit: Husbandry and Trade in Missionary
Writings
2. "I Have Received Your Christian and Very Loving Letter": Epistolarity
and Transatlantic Community
3. "The Reservoir of National Charity": The Role of the Missionary Society
4. Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
5. The Sacrifice of Self: Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in
Brainerd's and Sergeant's Biographies
6. "Like Snow Against the Sun": The Christian Origins of the Vanishing
Indian
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments