The Missionary: An Indian TaleSet 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. |
Contents
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A Brief Chronology | 59 |
Explanatory Notes | 263 |
Imperial Administration and Religious Difference | 277 |
Reviews of and Responses to Owensons Writing 1 From Rev of Woman Or Ida of Athens Quarterly Review 1809 | 295 |
A Bavarian Romance by Alicia Tindal Palmer Quarterly Review 1810 | 298 |
From Rev of The Missionary Critical Review 1811 | 299 |
From Rev of France Quarterly Review 1817 | 300 |
A Selection of Owensons Poetry from Poems 1801 | 313 |
Sonnet | 314 |
The Sigh | 315 |
Retrospection | 316 |
The Irish Harp | 320 |
To Mrs Lefanue | 323 |
The Boudoir | 325 |
To him who said You live only for the World | 327 |
Glorvinas Warning Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 1819 | 306 |
From Rev of The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa Edinburgh Review 1824 | 309 |
From Rev of Dramatic Scenes from Real Life and Illustrations of the State of Ireland Edinburgh Review 1833 | 310 |
From Henry F Chorley Lady Morgan The Authors of England 1838 | 311 |
The Minstrel Boy | 328 |
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