The American foreign mission movement was spawned in New England during the early years of the nineteenth century, in the ferment of the second great awakening. This outburst of evangelical energy and nationalist zeal was harnessed in service of a global agenda, which would be realized in part through the efforts of women. In my thesis, I explore the various convergences of home, nation, and Protestant mission in the journal-letters of three missionary women of the first half of the century--Harriet Newell, Caroline Pilsbury, and Narcissa Whitman. In a time when empire was driven by moral as much as territorial imperatives, these women were transformed into agents of imperial domesticity, expected to convert the world's "heathen" through the power of sheer feminine influence. Through letter writing, they negotiated these expectations before an emerging evangelical reading public, revealing in their texts the complex, and often-contradictory, discourses that shaped their sense of mission in an era of American expansion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04142011-132415 |
| Date | 14 April 2011 |
| Creators | Schat, Aleisa Rose |
| Contributors | Theresa Strouth Gaul |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04142011-132415/ |
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