Wacousta or, The Prophecy

Wacousta or, The Prophecy

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1987-12-15

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 0773573445

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Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.


Wacousta

Wacousta

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-03

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Wacousta is a historical novel set in late 18th-century Canada. The story uses the real battle of Pontiac against Fort Detroit but embellishes it with other characters, most notably Wacousta, a larger than life baddie.


Pioneer Woman

Pioneer Woman

Author: Elizabeth Helen Thompson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780773508323

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In The Backwoods of Canada and The Canadian Settler's Guide, Catherine Parr Traill described a pioneer woman's role on the Ontario frontier, presenting an idealized portrait of the Canadian woman pioneer in the mid-nineteenth century. By transposing this figure into fiction, Traill managed to create what was, in effect, a new fictional character type: the pioneer woman.


The Borders of Nightmare

The Borders of Nightmare

Author: Michael Hurley

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1992-12-15

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1487590385

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John Richardson was Canada's first native-born poet-novelist and 'The Father of Canadian Literature.' Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson's fiction rather than of his life or sociological importance. Hurley makes a convincing case for Richardson as an important early cartographer of the Canadian imagination and the originator of 'Southern Ontario Gothic.' He explores Richardson's influence on James Reaney, Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Christopher Dewdney, Frank Davey, and Marian Engel. Arguing that Wacousta and The Canadian Brothers hold central places in our literature, Hurley shows how these two works established a set of boundaries that our national literary discourse has largely kept hidden. Focusing on the protean concept of the border in the fiction of this man from the periphery, The Borders of Nightmare underlines the importance of boundaries, margins, shifting edges, and the coincidence of equally matched opposites in necessary balance to both Richardson and subsequent writers. In an age of postmodernism these novels – riddled as they are with discontinuities, paradoxes, ambiguity, and unresolved dualities that problematize the whole notion of a stable, coherent national or personal identity – anticipate and define a number of concerns that preoccupy us today.


A New Companion to The Gothic

A New Companion to The Gothic

Author: David Punter

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1119062500

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The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic


Canadian Brothers or the Prophecy Fulfilled

Canadian Brothers or the Prophecy Fulfilled

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992-10-15

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0773573771

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Major John Richardson (1796-1852) was a prolific and popular Canadian author. The Canadian Brothers, first published in 1840 in Montreal, is set on the northwest frontier during the War of 1812 and features such historical personages as Sir Isaac Brock, Captain Robert Heriot Barclay, and the famous Indian chief Tecumseh. The sequel to Wacousta (1832), The Canadian Brothers is not only a suitably horrific completion to the story of vengeance and hate begun in Richardson's earlier novel. It is also, and most importantly, a fictionalized narrative of events, people, and places from Richardson's own childhood and adolescence in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, that both reveals the psychology of its author and reflects seminal mythologies about Ontario and Canada.