Literary culture and female authorship in Canada, 1760-2000 / / Faye Hammill.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures ; 33
• VerfasserIn: Hammill, Faye,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"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,...

Table of Contents

• 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.