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Home ground and foreign territory : essays on early Canadian literature / edited by Janice Fiamengo.

"Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing ne...

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Other Authors: Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, [2014]
Series:Re-appraisals, Canadian writers.
Subjects:
Canadian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Home Ground and Foreign Territory / Janice Fiamengo
  • Reflections on the Situation and Study of Early Canadian Literature in the Long Confederation Period / D.M.R. Bentley
  • Periodicals First: The Beginnings of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver / Carole Gerson
  • Rediscovering Re(Dis)covering: Back to the Second-Wave Feminist Future / Cecily Devereux
  • Lady Audley's Secret versus The Abbot: Reconsidering the Form of Canadian Historical Fiction through the Content of Library Catalogues / Andrea Cabajsky
  • "Not Legitimately Gothic": Spiritualism and Early Canadian Literature / Thomas Hodd
  • The Canadian Canon, Being "On the Other Side of the Latch" and Sara Jeannette Duncan's Anglo-Indian Memoir / Christa Zeller Thomas
  • The Duelling Authors: Settler Imperatives and Agnes Laut's Denigration of Pierre Falcon / Albert Braz
  • Anna's Monuments: The Work of Mourning, the Gender of Melancholia and Canadian Women's War Writing / Joel Baetz
  • Hidden Hunger: Early Canadian Women Poets / Wanda Campbell
  • Judging by Appearances: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Ontology of Early Canadian Spirits / Cynthia Sugars
  • Hallowed Spaces/Public Places: Women's Literary Voices and The Acadian Recorder 1850-1870 / Ceilidh Hart
  • Who's In and Who's Out: Recovering Minor Authors and the Pesky Question of Critical Evaluation / Jennifer Chambers
  • Texts and Contexts: CEECT's Scholarly Editions / Mary Jane Edwards.

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