- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 263 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Missionary positions (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Missionary positions (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247)and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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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