Download or read book The Missionary written by Sydney Owenson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.