Women S Writing And Mission In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Angharad Eyre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000774528

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Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century by Angharad Eyre Pdf

Until 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.

Author : Angharad Eyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032366222

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Women's Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century by Angharad Eyre Pdf

Until now, the female missionary has appeared to be absent from 19th century literature. This book provides new readings of texts such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to reveal the presence of the female missionary in 19th century writing, arguing that the character influenced cultural debates about religion, gender and domesticity

Author : Catherine Hobbs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813916054

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Nineteenth-century Women Learn to Write by Catherine Hobbs Pdf

What and how were nineteenth-century women taught through conduct books and hymnbooks? What did women learn about reading and writing at a state normal school and at the Cherokee Nation's female seminary? What did Radcliffe women think of rhetoric classes imported from Harvard? How did women begin to gain their voices through speaking and writing in literary societies and by keeping diaries and journals? How did African American women use literacy as a tool for social action? How did women's writing portray alternative views of the western frontier? The essays in this volume address these questions and more in exploring the gendered nature of education in the nineteenth century. These essays give a more complete picture of literacy in the nineteenth century. Part one presents a panoply of sites and cultural contexts in which women learned to write, including ideological contexts, institutional sites, and informal settings such as literary circles. Part two examines specific genres, texts, and "voices" of literate women and students of writing and speaking. Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write interweaves thick feminist social history with theoretical perspectives from such diverse fields as linguistics and folklore, feminist literary theory, and African American and Native American studies. The volume constitutes a major addition to traditional social science studies of literacy.

Author : Angharad Eyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351272186

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Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society by Angharad Eyre Pdf

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. This second volume is called ‘Mission and Reform’ and it considers the social and political importance of religious faith and practice as expressed through foreign and domestic mission and philanthropic and political movements at home and abroad.

Author : Annemarie McAllister
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000779981

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Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals by Annemarie McAllister Pdf

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It introduces some of the now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained. Locating their writing in the context of their personal commitment, the study takes seven prolific writers who were outside what we now think of as the circuits of conventional publication and authorship, and looks at how they found ways to make their voices heard. Their absorption in a cause led them to forge impressive writing careers in a variety of genres and media, focusing around high-circulation temperance periodicals. Examining their cultural contributions as well as their professional lives confirms the importance of the temperance movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, and raises questions about distribution practices and values, and distinctions between "life" and "work."

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521826990

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Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 by Anna Johnston Pdf

Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism, and race.

Author : Sue Anderson-Faithful
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718845872

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Mary Sumner by Sue Anderson-Faithful Pdf

The founder and president of the Mothers' Union, one of the first and largest women's organisations, Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was an influential educator and a force to be reckoned with in the Church of England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the analytical tools of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Sue Anderson-Faithful locates Mary Sumner's life and thought against social and religious networks in which she was restricted by gender yet privileged by class and proximity to distinguished individuals. This dichotomy is key to understanding the achievements of a woman who both replicated and shaped Victorian attitudes to women's roles in society. To Mary Sumner mission and education meant the propagation of religious knowledge through progressive pedagogy. Her activism was intended to promote social reform at home and nurture the growth of the British Empire with mothers wielding their political power as educators of future citizens. The symbiotic relationship between Church and State concentrated power in the hands of a ruling class with which Mary Sumner identified and which she supported. In her view the legitimacy of national and imperial rule was intertwined with the moral force of Anglicanism. SueAnderson-Faithful interprets Mary Sumner's lifelong work in the light of these relationships, contrasting her assertion of personal agency and an empowering discourse of motherhood with her simultaneous reinforcement of patriarchy and class privilege.

Author : Birgit Spengler
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130551596

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Vision, Gender and Power in Nineteenth-century American Women's Writing, 1860-1900 by Birgit Spengler Pdf

Vision and visual practices form a constant topic in the fiction of 19th-century American female authors. Based on Michel Foucault's assumption that an epistemic shift in the visual organisation of power and knowledge marks the onset of modernity and on developments in visual technology and philosophical reasoning, this study explores the ways in which issues of vision are addressed by American women writers before the ostensible 'visual turn' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Authors such as Elizabeth Stoddard, Lousia May Alcott, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Metta Fuller Victor and Anna Katharine Green demonstrate a fundamental concern with the epistemological, social, and gender implications of visual practices. In their works, vision is exposed as a social and cultural practice, a means of power and control that structures social relations in gender-, class-, and race-specific ways. However, these authors also explore strategies of resistance and modes of empowerment through visual practices. 19th-century American women writers thus anticipate concerns that became dominant around the turn of the century and provide an important tradition upon which late 19th-century 'innovators' such as Edith Wharton and Henry James could build upon.

Author : Elizabeth Dimock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315392721

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Women, Mission and Church in Uganda by Elizabeth Dimock Pdf

This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire. Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities, the gender relations in those societies and relations between the British Protectorate administration and Ugandan Christian women are all explored in detail. The analysis is offset by the author’s experience of working in Uganda at the close of British Protectorate status in the 1960s, employed by the Uganda Government Education Department in a school founded by the Uganda Mission.

Author : Vasiliki Misiou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000855692

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The Renaissance of Women Translators in 19th-Century Greece by Vasiliki Misiou Pdf

This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the translation activity of Greek women translators in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of translation as a means of resistance against sociocultural norms and the enduring impact of their work on the rise of feminism in Greece. Drawing on frameworks from the sociology of translation, the book situates the practices and behaviours of women translators within this specific sociocultural and historical context to underscore the importance of translation in their lives and society. Drawing on authentic texts, including dedication letters and prologues, Misiou unpacks the discourses, themes, strategies, and dialogues individual translators employed to affirm a sense of agency in their claims to education and civil rights, their role in cultural life as producers of texts, and to give greater voice to the wider community of women translators. The volume showcases women translators as agents and mediators of cultural and social change and active contributors to the theory and practice of translation, expanding theoretical discourse on gender and translation and offering directions for future research. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation studies, particularly those with an interest in translation and gender, feminist translation studies, and translation history.

Author : Margaret Homans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641119524

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Bearing the Word by Margaret Homans Pdf

Author : Dale M. Bauer,Philip Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669758

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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing by Dale M. Bauer,Philip Gould Pdf

A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Rebecca Styler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104537

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Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Rebecca Styler Pdf

Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres. Through these, they questioned the Christian tradition relative to contemporary concerns about political ethics, gender identity, and personal meaning. Among Styler's subjects are novels by Emma Worboise; writers of collective biography, including Anna Jameson and Clara Balfour, who study Bible women in order to address contemporary concerns about 'The Woman Question'; poetry by Anne Bronte; and political writing by Harriet Martineau and Josephine Butler. As Styler considers the ways in which each writer negotiates the gender constraints and opportunities that are available to her religious setting and literary genre, she shows the varying degrees of frustration which these writers express with the inadequacy of received religion to meet their personal and ethical needs. All find resources within that tradition, and within their experience, to reconfigure Christianity in creative, and more earth-oriented ways.