The Canadian brothers, or, The prophecy fulfilled : a tale of the late American war / John Richardson ; edited by Donald Stephens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Major (John), 1796-1852.

Contributor:

Stephens, Donald, 1931-

Series:

Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts series ; 9.

Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--War of 1812--Fiction.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Major John Richardson (1796-1852) was a prolific and popular Canadian author. The Canadian Brothers, first published in 1840 in Montreal, is set on the northwest frontier during the War of 1812 and features such historical personages as Sir Isaac Brock, Captain Robert Heriot Barclay, and the famous Indian chief Tecumseh. The sequel to Wacousta (1832), The Canadian Brothers is not only a suitably horrific completion to the story of vengeance and hate begun in Richardson's earlier novel. It is also, and most importantly, a fictionalized narrative of events, people, and places from Richardson's own childhood and adolescence in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, that both reveals the psychology of its author and reflects seminal mythologies about Ontario and Canada.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Frontispiece: ""A Map Of Upper and Lower Canada With Part Of The United States Adjoining . . . 1813,"" courtesy of National Archives of Canada, NMC 6018""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Foreword""; ""Editor's Preface""; ""Editor's Introduction""; ""Illustration: Title-page of 1840 Armour and Ramsay Edition""; ""The Canadian Brothers""; ""Illustration: ""View of Amherstburg 1813,"" courtesy of Environment Canada, Parks Service: Fort Malden National Historic Site""; ""Volume One""

""Illustration: ""Battle of Lake Erie,"" by Robert Irvine, courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada""""Volume Two""; ""Explanatory Notes""; ""Bibliographical Description of 1840 Armour and Ramsay Edition""; ""Published Versions of the Text""; ""Emendations in Copy-text""; ""Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in Copy-text""; ""Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in CEECT Edition""; ""Appendix: Copyright Notice, 1840""

Notes:

Sequel to: Wacousta, or, The prophecy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxv-lxxxii).

Contains:

Prophecy fulfilled.

ISBN:

0-7735-7377-1

OCLC:

1380734135