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The frontier and Canadian letters / Wilfred Eggleston ; with an introduction by D.O. Spettigue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eggleston, Wilfrid, author.
- Series:
- Carleton library ; no. 102.
- Carleton library ; number 102
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian literature--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Canada.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Distribution:
- Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto [Ontario] : McCelland and Stewart ; Ottawa [Ontario] : Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University, [1977]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A blend of social sciences, history and literary analyses of contemporaries such as A.G. Bailey and E.K. Brown. this work was a turning point in Canadian literary criticism at the very time of an unprecedented expansion in Canadian studies.
- Contents:
- Introduction to the Carleton Library edition
- Introduction
- A plant of slow growth
- Climate and soil in literary flowerings
- The cultural values of the frontier
- Preludes to the New England flowering
- The first harvest
- The frontier process in Upper Canada
- Pioneer authors in French-speaking Canada
- The flowering Fredericton
- Frontier values outlive the frontier
- The last great frontier
- The frontier and today
- Index
- Related titles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9552-X
- OCLC:
- 887635608
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