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Missionary Positions : Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction /

Weaving together political, theological, and literary analyses this investigation examines a broad range of works, featuring both those that celebrate and those that criticize American missionaries at home and abroad.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tricomi, Albert H., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Remaking the myth of a chosen people in Catharine Sedwick's Hope Leslie -- Evangelizing the Indians under Manifest Destiny in Cooper's The oak openings -- Melville's indictment of the missionaries in Typee and Omooo -- The missionary novel in decline, Mark Twain, and America's second manifest destiny -- Revival : missionary reform in Alice Hobart's Yang and Yin and missionary rebuke in Claude McKay's Banana bottom -- Contesting America's missionary destiny in Sinclair Lewis's The God-seeker -- The reluctant embrace of American Missionary imperialism in James Michener's Hawaii -- Contemporary developments: Hersey's The call, Kingsolver's Poinsonwood bible, Grisham's The testament, and LaHaye's "Left behind" novels. 
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650 6 |a Roman americain  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 6 |a Évangelisme dans la litterature. 
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