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The Haunted Wilderness : The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction / Margot Northey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Northey, Margot, Author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian fiction--History and criticism.
- Canadian fiction.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (131 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- By analysing a number of Canadian works of fiction from the nineteenth century to the present, Margot Northey demonstrates that Gothicism, in varying degrees and of various kinds, has been a continuing feature of our fiction.
- Contents:
- Early Gothic
- Canadian prototype : Wacousta
- Decorative Gothic : The golden dog
- Towards the grotesque : Le chercheur de tresors
- Gothic propaganda : For my country : Pour la patrie
- Modern Gothic
- Psychological gothic : Kamouraska
- Sociological Gothic : Wild geese and Surfacing
- Terrible grotesque : Mad shadows
- Sportive grotesque : La guerre, yes sir!
- Symbolic grotesque : The double hook
- Satiric grotesque : Cocksure
- Towards the mystical grotesque : Beautiful losers.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-7819-9
- OCLC:
- 1153507705
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