Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-0905-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

“There are two ladies in the province, I am told, who read,” writes Frances Brooke’s Arabella Fermor, “but both are above fifty and are regarded as prodigies of erudition.” Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (1769) was the first work of fiction to be set in Canada, and also the first book to reflect on the situation of the woman writer there. Her analysis of the experience of writing in Canada is continued by the five other writers considered in this study – Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Duncan, L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. All of these authors examine the social position of the woman of letters in Canada, the intellectual stimulation available to her, the literary possibilities of Canadian subject-matter, and the practical aspects of reading, writing, and publishing in a (post)colonial country.
This book turns on the ways in which those aspects of authorship and literary culture in Canada have been inscribed in imaginative, autobiographical and critical texts by the six authors. It traces the evolving situation of the Canadian woman writer over the course of two centuries, and explores the impact of social and cultural change on the experience of writing in Canada.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammill, Faye

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Inspiration and Imitation: An Introduction
1 “A daughter of the Muses”: Frances Brooke’s History of Emily Montague
2 Susanna Moodie and “the sin of authorship”
3 Sara Jeannette Duncan in the “camp of the Philistines”
4 “Pure Canadian”: L.M. Montgomery and Her “Emily” Trilogy
5 Influential Circles: Carol Shields and the Canadian Literary Canon
6 Forest and “fairy stuff”: Margaret Atwood’s Wilderness Tips
7 Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields and “that Moodie bitch”
Conclusion
Appendix: Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill in Contemporary Canadian Literature
Works Cited
Index