The Missionary: An Indian Tale (Broadview Literary Texts)

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.

Julia M. Wright is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University. The editor of the Broadview Edition of The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys, she has published widely on Irish and Romantic literatures.