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OverviewUntil now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and life writing, to canonical Victorian literature, New Woman fiction and women’s college writing. Nineteenth-century women writers wove the tropes of the female missionary figure and plot into their domestic fiction, and the female missionary themes of religious self-sacrifice and heroism formed the subjectivity of these writers and their characters. Offering an alternative narrative for the development of women writers and early feminism, as well as a new reading of Jane Eyre, this book adds to the debate about whether religious women in the nineteenth century could actually be radical and feminist. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.648kg ISBN: 9781032366227ISBN 10: 1032366222 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 30 November 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAngharad Eyre currently teaches in the English Department at Queen Mary University of London and lives in the city with her husband and two small children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |