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Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature explores the notion that missionaries, often perceived as only evangelically motivated in the British imperial project, were also spurred on by cosmopolitan ideals. Winter Jade Werner makes this surprising connection in order to write against standard understandings of missionary work as well as typical understandings of cosmopolitanism as a deeply secular project.
Missionary Cosmopolitanism identifies the nineteenth-century novel as thematically and formally attuned to the tension between missionaries'' cosmopolitan values and the moral impoverishment of their imperialist and expansionist practices. Werner''s chapters interact with canonical works such as Charlotte Brontë''s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens''s Bleak House, along with lesser-known works by Robert Southey and Sydney Owenson. Ultimately, Missionary Cosmopolitanism demonstrates tha

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      Publisher: Ohio State University Press
      Publication Date: 5/16/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780814255889, 978-0814255889
      ISBN10: 0814255884
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature explores the notion that missionaries, often perceived as only evangelically motivated in the British imperial project, were also spurred on by cosmopolitan ideals. Winter Jade Werner makes this surprising connection in order to write against standard understandings of missionary work as well as typical understandings of cosmopolitanism as a deeply secular project.
      Missionary Cosmopolitanism identifies the nineteenth-century novel as thematically and formally attuned to the tension between missionaries'' cosmopolitan values and the moral impoverishment of their imperialist and expansionist practices. Werner''s chapters interact with canonical works such as Charlotte Brontë''s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens''s Bleak House, along with lesser-known works by Robert Southey and Sydney Owenson. Ultimately, Missionary Cosmopolitanism demonstrates tha

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