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Missionary positions evangelicalism and empire in American fiction

Title
Missionary positions [electronic resource] : evangelicalism and empire in American fiction / Albert H. Tricomi.
Author
Tricomi, Albert H., 1942-
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.

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Description
1 online resource (xii, 263 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Missionary positions (Online)
Alternative Title
Missionary positions (Online)
Subject
  • American fiction > History and criticism
  • Evangelicalism in literature
  • Missionaries in literature
  • Imperialism in literature
  • National characteristics, American, in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247)and index.
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Contents
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.
LCCN
2010032259
OCLC
ssj0000628483
Author
Tricomi, Albert H., 1942-
Title
Missionary positions [electronic resource] : evangelicalism and empire in American fiction / Albert H. Tricomi.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247)and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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