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Home Ground and Foreign Territory : Essays on Early Canadian Literature.

Fiamengo, Janice.

Home Ground and Foreign Territory : Essays on Early Canadian Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (279 pages) - Reappraisals: Canadian Writers Series . - Reappraisals: Canadian Writers Series .

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Introduction: Home Ground and Foreign Territory -- Reflections on the Situation and Study of Early Canadian Literature in the Long Confederation Period -- Periodicals First: The Beginnings of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver -- Rediscovering Re(Dis)covering: Back to the Second-Wave Feminist Future -- Lady Audley's Secret versus The Abbot: Reconsidering the Form of Canadian Historical Fiction through the Content of Library Catalogues -- "Not Legitimately Gothic": Spiritualism and Early Canadian Literature -- The Canadian Canon, Being "On the Other Side of the Latch" and Sara Jeannette Duncan's Anglo-Indian Memoir -- The Duelling Authors: Settler Imperatives and Agnes Laut's Denigration of Pierre Falcon -- Anna's Monuments: The Work of Mourning, the Gender of Melancholia and Canadian Women's War Writing -- Hidden Hunger: Early Canadian Women Poets -- Judging by Appearances: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Ontology of Early Canadian Spirits -- Hallowed Spaces/Public Places: Women's Literary Voices and The Acadian Recorder 1850-1870 -- Who's In and Who's Out: Recovering Minor Authors and the Pesky Question of Critical Evaluation -- Texts and Contexts: CEECT's Scholarly Editions -- Contributors -- Back Cover.

The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.

9780776621401


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


Electronic books.

PS8071 .2

810.9/003

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