TY - BOOK AU - Johnston, Anna, AU - Johnston, Anna, 1972- TI - Missionary writing and empire, 1800-1860 T2 - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 38 SN - 9780521049559 U1 - 266.023 JOH PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Social & Ecclesiastical Theology KW - Missions KW - London Missionary Society -- History -- 19th century KW - Missions, English -- Polynesia -- History -- 19th century KW - Imperialism -- History -- 19th century KW - Missions, English KW - Australia KW - Londoner Mission KW - Rapporteren KW - Imperialismus N1 - The British Empire, colonialism, and missionary activity -- Gender, domesticity, and colonial evangelisation -- Empire, India, and evangelisation -- Missionary writing in India -- Imperialism, suffragism, and nationalism -- Polynesian missions and the European imaginary -- Missionary writing in Polynesia -- The Australian colonies and empire -- Missionary writing in Australia -- Conclusion: missionary writing, the imperial archive and postcolonial politics N2 - Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire and argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between religous and imperial interests ER -