Home ground and foreign territory : essays on early Canadian literature / edited by Janice Fiamengo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964- editor.

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers.

Reappraisals: Canadian Writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, 2014.

Summary:

The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Introduction: Home Ground and Foreign Territory; Reflections on the Situation and Study of Early Canadian Literature in the Long Confederation Period; Periodicals First: The Beginnings of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver; Rediscovering Re(Dis)covering: Back to the Second-Wave Feminist Future; Lady Audley's Secret versus The Abbot: Reconsidering the Form of Canadian Historical Fiction through the Content of Library Catalogues

"Not Legitimately Gothic": Spiritualism and Early Canadian LiteratureThe Canadian Canon, Being "On the Other Side of the Latch" and Sara Jeannette Duncan's Anglo-Indian Memoir; The Duelling Authors: Settler Imperatives and Agnes Laut's Denigration of Pierre Falcon; Anna's Monuments: The Work of Mourning, the Gender of Melancholia and Canadian Women's War Writing; Hidden Hunger: Early Canadian Women Poets; Judging by Appearances: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Ontology of Early Canadian Spirits; Hallowed Spaces/Public Places: Women's Literary Voices and The Acadian Recorder 1850-1870

Who's In and Who's Out: Recovering Minor Authors and the Pesky Question of Critical EvaluationTexts and Contexts: CEECT's Scholarly Editions; Contributors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780776621401

0776621408

OCLC:

871227968