How Canada Is Described in the Writings of Ninteteenth-Century Canadian Women [electronic resource] : The Feminine Experience in the Margins of the British Empire

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Jeune, Françoise.

Le Jeune, Franðcoise, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature.

Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--19th century--Canada.

Canadian literature.

Women--History--19th century--Canada.

Women.

Women pioneers--History.

Women pioneers.

Canada--Description and travel.

Canada.

Canada--Social life and customs--19th century.

Local Subjects:

Literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years during the colonization of Canada there were travel books which were sold in England. Le Jeune studies the ways these descriptive texts created a series of surveys that assessed the worth of Canada and describe life on the frontier while it was being settled. In particular, this book focuses on how women are depicted and what roles they played in 19th century life. More importantly these travel logs allowed for new representations of women to trickle back to England, causing a re-imagining of what a stereotypical Canadian woman should be. Victorian values also permeated the texts,

Contents:

How Canada Is Described in the Writings of Ninteteenth-Century Canadian Women: The Feminine Experience in the Margins of the British Empire; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Through women's eyes: Canada in the margins of America (1821 -1836) - Frances Wright's Views of Society and Manners in America.; CHAPTER 2 ""A Woman's Pen Alone..."" Catharine Parr Train's The Backwoods of Canada (1837); CHAPTER 3 Women's Narratives of Canada: in the margins of the publishing world

CHAPTER 4 Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada -Canada with a woman's ""soul and senses"" (1838)CHAPTER 5 The Empire Writes Back - Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush or Life in Canada. (1852-1854); CHAPTER 6 The ""Moodie effect"" on imperial counter-narratives (1852-1867); CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-2176-9

OCLC:

810082738