The Missionary: An Indian Tale (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

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9781551112633: The Missionary: An Indian Tale (Broadview Editions)

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Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionary focuses on the relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India, and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Both are aristocratic, devoted to their religions, bound by vows of chastity, and begin the novel biased against other cultures. This Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes extensive primary source appendices that situate the novel in relation to Irish, Portuguese and Indian history, as well as to the literature of sensibility and travel writing.

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Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has written widely on Romantic literature and is the editor (with Tilottama Rajan) of Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837.

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Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionary focuses on the relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India, and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Both are aristocratic, devoted to their religions, bound by vows of chastity, and begin the novel biased against other cultures. This Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes extensive primary source appendices that situate the novel in relation to Irish, Portuguese and Indian history, as well as to the literature of sensibility and travel writing.

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ISBN 10:  1396613447 ISBN 13:  9781396613449
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
Hardcover