The Haunted Wilderness : : The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction /

The Haunted Wilderness : : The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction / / Margot Northey.

Gothic elements in English-Canadian fiction have generally been regarded as idiosyncratic outcroppings, or, in French-Canadian novels, as a temporary phenomenon rather than as part of a recurring Canadian pattern. By analysing a number of Canadian works of fiction from the nineteenth century to the...

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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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Northey, Margot,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©1976
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (140 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE NINETEENTH-CENTURY GOTHIC FICTION
  • 1 Early Gothic
  • 2 Canadian Prototype: Wacousta
  • 3 Decorative Gothic: The Golden Dog
  • 4 Towards the Grotesque: Le Chercheur de trésors
  • 5 Gothic Propaganda: For My Country: Pour la patrie
  • PART TWO TWENTIETH-CENTURY GOTHIC FICTION
  • 6 Modern Gothic
  • 7 Psychological Gothic: Kamouraska
  • 8 Sociological Gothic: Wild Geese and Surfacing
  • 9 Terrible Grotesque: Mad Shadows
  • 10 Sportive Grotesque: La Guerre, Yes Sir!
  • 11 Symbolic Grotesque: The Double Hook
  • 12 Satiric Grotesque: Cocksure
  • 13 Towards the Mystical Grotesque: Beautiful Losers
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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