Author: Mary FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Boys and their Mission. Letters to the Boys of England
Author: Mary FullerVictorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel
Author: Michelle EllerayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000752992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children’s textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel of his youth.
The British Boys' Paper
Author: Luther League Review
Author: Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada
Author: Ontario. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record
Author: James Gilmour of Mongolia, His Diaries, Letters and Reports
Author: James GilmourDocumentary History of Education in Upper Canada: 1865-1867
Author: Ontario. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, from the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the Close of Dr. Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876: 1865-1867
Author: John George HodginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Spirit of Missions
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.