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LEADER: 01781cam a22003014a 4500
001 2010032259
003 DLC
005 20141114080346.0
008 100802s2011 flua b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn656158791
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050 00 $aPS374.E87$bT75 2011
082 00 $a813.009$222
100 1 $aTricomi, Albert H.,$d1942-
245 10 $aMissionary positions :$bevangelicalism and empire in American fiction /$cAlbert H. Tricomi.
260 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$c2011.
300 $axii, 263 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247)and index.
505 0 $aRemaking 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEvangelicalism in literature.
650 0 $aMissionaries in literature.
650 0 $aImperialism in literature.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.