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Roughing it in the bush : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / Susanna Moodie ; edited by Michael A. Peterman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885.
- Series:
- Norton critical edition
- A Norton critical edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885.
- Women authors, Canadian--Biography.
- Women authors, Canadian.
- Authors, Canadian.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Women pioneers.
- Pioneers.
- Ontario--Description and travel.
- Ontario.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Ontario.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Moodie, Susanna.
- Pioneers--Ontario--Biography.
- Women pioneers--Ontario--Biography.
- Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885--Criticism and interpretation.
- Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Canadian literature--Women authors.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- Authors, Canadian--19th century--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 587 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2007]
- Summary:
- In 1832, Susanna Moodie, her husband, and her daughter immigrated to Canada from England in search of financial independence. In Roughing It in the Bush, Moodie recounts the seven and a half years the family spent pioneering in the unsettled Canadian backwoods. The text reprinted in this Norton Critical Edition is the second English edition, of July 1852, chosen because it corrects errors in the first edition and adds selected material by Moodie that was not included in the first edition.
- "Backgrounds" includes early and later portraits of Moodie, photographs of the Moodies' houses in England and Canada, one of Moodie's letters from the backwoods, and a map of Upper Canada. Also included in this section is an advertisement for the first edition, Charles Frederick Briggs's preface to the first American edition (1852), Susanna Moodie's introduction to the first Canadian edition (1871), John Moodie's "Canadian Sketches" from the second English edition, three separately published sketches by Susanna Moodie, and five letters from Susanna to John during his military appointment in the winter of 1839. "A Slight Sketch of the Early Life of Mrs. Moodie," by Catharine Parr Traill-Susanna Moodie's sister-and five contemporary reviews are also reprinted. "Criticism" collects twelve essays by leading Canadian writers, scholars, and literary critics: Margaret Atwood, Carl Ballstadt, David Stouck, John Thurston, D. M. R. Bentley, Bina Freiwald, Susan Glickman, Michael A. Peterman, Carole Gerson, Misao Dean, and Helen M. Buss. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
- Contents:
- The Text of Roughing It in the Bush 1
- Choice of Text and Editing Strategy 333
- Advertisement for the First Edition 343
- / C. F. B. Preface to Roughing It in the Bush 344
- / John Moodie Canadian Sketches 351
- / Susanna Moodie Old Woodruff and His Three Wives 372
- / Susanna Moodie Jeanie Burns 381
- / Susanna Moodie Lost Children 389
- Susanna Moodie's Letters to Her Husband, 1839 395
- / Catharine Parr Traill A Slight Sketch of the Early Life of Mrs. Moodie 399
- / Frederick Hardmann Forest Life in Canada West 401
- / Anonymous The Backwoods of Canada 404
- / Charles Lyndsay Misrepresentation 405
- / Anonymous Review from The Provincial: or, Halifax Monthly Magazine 407
- / Anonymous Review from The Canadian Monthly and National Review 410
- Criticism
- / Margaret Atwood Afterword to The Journals of Susanna Moodie 417
- / Carl Ballstadt Susanna Moodie and the English Sketch 419
- / David Stouck "Secrets of the Prison-House": Mrs. Moodie and the Canadian Imagination 425
- / John Thurston Rewriting Roughing It 433
- / D. M. R. Bentley Breaking the "Cake of Custom": The Atlantic Crossing as a Rubicon for Female Emigrants to Canada? 442
- / Bina Freiwald "The tongue of woman": The Language of the Self in Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush 473
- / Susan Glickman The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm" 490
- / Michael A. Peterman Roughing It in Michigan and Upper Canada: Caroline Kirkland and Susanna Moodie 512
- / Carole Gerson Nobler Savages: Representations of Native Women in the Writings of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill 522
- / Michael A. Peterman Reconstructing the Palladium of British America: How the Rebellion of 1837 and Charles Fothergill Helped to Establish Susanna Moodie as a Writer in Canada 538
- / Misao Dean The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practice in Susanna Moodie's Autobiographical Works 559
- / Helen M. Buss Two Exemplary Early Texts: Moodie's Roughing It and Jameson's Studies and Rambles 571
- Susanna Strickland Moodie: A Chronology 583.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-587).
- ISBN:
- 9780393926675
- 0393926672
- OCLC:
- 71223437
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