Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature

by Janice Fiamengo (Editor)

Overview

Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected texts, and proposing new approaches to canonical authors. Renowned experts in early Canadian literary studies, including D.M.R. Bentley, Mary Jane Edwards, and Carole Gerson, join emerging scholars in a collection distinguished by its clarity of argument and breadth of reference. Together, the essays offer bold and informative contributions to the study of this dynamic literature.

Home Ground and Foreign Territory reaches out far beyond the scope of early Canadian literature. Its multi-disciplinary approach innovates literal studies and appeals to literature specialists and general readership alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776621395
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	04/03/2014
Series:	Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Janice Fiamengo is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches Canadian literature and nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of The Woman’s Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada (2008), published by the University of Toronto Press, and Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination (2007), published by the University of Ottawa Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: Home Ground and Foreign Territory Janice Fiamengo 1

Reflections on the Situation and Study of Early Canadian Literature in the Long Confederation Period D. M. R. Bentley 17

Periodicals First: The Beginnings of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver Carole Gerson 45

Rediscovering Re(Dis)covering: Back to the Second-Wave Feminist Future Cecily Devereux 67

Lady Audleys Secret versus The Abbot: Reconsidering the Form of Canadian Historical Fiction through the Content of Library Catalogues Andrea Cabajsky 89

"Not Legitimately Gothic": Spiritualism and Early Canadian Literature Thomas Hodd 115

The Canadian Canon, Being "On the Other Side of the Latch" and Sara Jeannette Duncan's Anglo-Indian Memoir Christa Zeller Thomas 137

The Duelling Authors: Settler Imperatives and Agnes Laut's Denigration of Pierre Falcon Albert Braz 157

Anna's Monuments: The Work of Mourning, the Gender of Melancholia and Canadian Women's War Writing Joel Baetz 175

Hidden Hunger: Early Canadian Women Poets Wanda Campbell 197

Judging by Appearances: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Ontology of Early Canadian Spirits Cynthia Sugars 217

Hallowed Spaces/Public Places: Women's Literary Voices and The Acadian Recorder 1850-1870 Ceilidh Hart 237

Who's In and Who's Out: Recovering Minor Authors and the Pesky Question of Critical Evaluation Jennifer Chambers 257

Texts and Contexts: CEECT's Scholarly Editions Mary Jane Edwards 275

Contributors 295