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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; An Aromatic Blend of America and China: Introducing Pearl Buck's Middlebrow Mission ; Pearl Buck and the Misssionary Theme ; Pearl Buck in the Context of Middlebrow Literature ; The Critical Dismissal of Pearl Buck |
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1. The Sentimental Imperialism of American Women Missionaries in China American Missionaries as Cultural Imperialists ; Women Missionaries -- Competing Concepts of Womanhood Abroad? ; Women Missionaries and their Home Audiences |
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'The Work of Women for Women': Ambiguities in the Social Gospel Missionary Marriages and the 'Burden of Motherhood' ; The Missionary Home as Empire ; 2. The Exile and Fighting Angel: Pearl Buck's Gendered Critique of Missions |
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The Parents' Representativeness: Introducing Pearl Buck's Recovery Project Between Fact and Fiction: Pearl Buck as a 'New' Biographer ; The American Mother and the Saintly Prophet: The Biographies of Pearl Buck's Missionary Parents |
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Rethinking the Biographies -- Pearl Buck's My Several Worlds "Is there a Case for Foreign Missions?" Pearl Buck's Official Break with the Missionary Movement ; 'Making Use of Missionary Pamphlets'? The Missionary Theme in Buck's Fiction ; 3. Pearl Buck's Coming of Age: East Wind, West Wind |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Missionaries in literature.
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Missionaries in literature. |
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China -- In literature.
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China. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9783839431085 (electronic book) |
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3839431085 (electronic book) |
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9783837631081 |
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3837631087 |
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