The American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Quebec : : Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gerin-Lajoie's 'Jean Rivard' /

The American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Quebec : : Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gerin-Lajoie's 'Jean Rivard' / / Robert Major.

Antonine Gerin-Lajoie's Jean Rivard (1862-4) is recognized as a landmark novel in Quebec literature. It has come to be regarded as a typical mid-nineteenth-century example of the conservative and reactionary nationalism and patriotism into which French Canadians withdrew after the crushing of t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Major, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Genesis of a Discourse. Gerin-Lajoie and the United States: Biographical and Historical Indicators
  • 2. Paratext and Plot: What Happens in Jean Rivard?
  • 3. Intertextuality I: Jean Rivard's Library
  • 4. lntertextuality II: Jean Rivard as a Utopia
  • 5. Republicanism or Feudalism in Laurentia?
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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