Re(dis)covering our foremothers : nineteenth-century Canadian women writers

Re(dis)covering our foremothers : nineteenth-century Canadian women writers /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McMullen, Lorraine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©1990.
Series:Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 15.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1800-1900
1800-1899
Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Canada > History > 19th century.
Women > Canada > Intellectual life.
Canadian literature.
Canadian literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Women > Intellectual life.
Englisch
Frauenliteratur
Schriftstellerin
Kongress
Canadian literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses.
Canadian literature (English) > 19th century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Écrits de femmes canadiens-anglais > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Littérature canadienne-anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Canada.
Kanada
Englisch.
Kanada.
Kongress > Ottawa > 1988.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lorraine McMullen
  • "Thinking back through our mothers" : tradition in Canadian women's writing / Clara Thomas, Carol Shields, Donna E. Smyth
  • Archival sources for research on nineteenth-century women writers / Marion Beyea
  • Canadian women writers and the American literary milieu of the 1890s / James Doyle
  • Problems and solutions in the Dictionary of Canadian biography, 1800-1900 / Francess G. Halpenny
  • Research in nineteenth-century Canadian women writers : an exercise in literary detection / Carrie MacMillan
  • Anthologies and the canon of early Canadian women writers / Carole Gerson
  • Separate entrances : the first generation of Canadian women journalists / Marjory Lang
  • Breaking the "cake of custom" : the Atlantic crossing as a rubicon for female emigrants to Canada? / D.M.R. Bentley
  • Women and the garrison mentality : pioneer women autobiographers and their relation to the land / Helen M. Buss
  • "The embryo blossom" : Susanna Moodie's letters to her husband in relation to Roughing it in the bush / Carl Ballstadt
  • The function of the sketches in Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the bush / Alec Lucas
  • "The tongue of woman" : the language of the self in Moodie's Roughing it in the bush / Bina Freiwald
  • "Splendid anachronism" : the record of Catharine Parr Traill's struggles as an amateur botanist in nineteenth-century Canada / Michael A. Peterman
  • "You may imagine my feelings" : reading Sara Jeannette Duncan's challenge to narrative / Misao Dean
  • Afterword / Elizabeth Waterston.

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