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- Christopher Hope, Kruger's Alp (Viking, 1985). South African political satire based on The Pilgrim's Progress. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Rebecca Fraser, Charlotte Bronte (Methuen, 1988). Biography of CB. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Edward E. Andrews, Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World (Harvard, 2013). Examines the work of Native American, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean evangelicals from the early modern period into the nineteenth century, including their often critical relationship to the Protestant establishment. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Peter Y. Choi, George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire (Eerdmans, 2018). New biography of the influential Methodist that examines the connections between his evangelism and his politics, particularly his roles in shaping American imperialism and slavery. (Amazon)
- Esme Cleall, Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). A study of missionary prose that focuses on how far they were able to extend their belief in Christian "universalism" to their encounters with indigenous peoples. (Amazon [secondhand])
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