Re(dis)covering our foremothers : nineteenth-century Canadian women writers / edited and with an introduction by Lorraine McMullen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McMullen, Lorraine.

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 15.

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

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

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

Women and literature.

Women--Canada--Intellectual life.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rediscovering our foremothers

Nineteenth-century Canadian women writers

Rediscovering our foremothers.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada's long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties - and rewards - of research into the lives of our foremothers.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; ""Thinking Back Through Our Mothers"": Tradition in Canadian Women's Writing; Research-Problems and Solutions; Anthologies and the Canon of Early Canadian Women Writers; Separate Entrances: The First Generation of Canadian Women Journalists; Breaking the ""Cake of Custom"": The Atlantic Crossing as a Rubicon for Female Emigrants to Canada?; Women and the Garrison Mentality: Pioneer Women Autobiographers and their Relation to the Land; Susanna Moodie

""Splendid Anachronism"": The Record of Catharine Parr Traill's Struggles as an Amateur Botanist in Nineteenth-Century Canada""You may imagine my feelings"": Reading Sara Jeannette Duncan's Challenge to Narrative; Afterword; Contributors

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held at University of Ottawa, April 29-May 1, 1988.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780776616810

0776616811

OCLC:

742333010