In her afterword, Cynthia Sugars considers how The Forest of Bourg-Marie reimagines the Gothic tradition from a settler Canadian perspective, turning to a French-Canadian setting with distinctly New-World overtones. Harrison’s twist on the traditional Gothic plotline offers an inversion of such Gothic motifs as the decadent aristocrat and ancestral curse by playing on questions of illegitimacy and cultural preservation.
In her afterword, Cynthia Sugars considers how The Forest of Bourg-Marie reimagines the Gothic tradition from a settler Canadian perspective, turning to a French-Canadian setting with distinctly New-World overtones. Harrison’s twist on the traditional Gothic plotline offers an inversion of such Gothic motifs as the decadent aristocrat and ancestral curse by playing on questions of illegitimacy and cultural preservation.
The Forest of Bourg-Marie
266The Forest of Bourg-Marie
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ISBN-13: | 9781771120296 |
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Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
Publication date: | 06/17/2015 |
Series: | Early Canadian Literature , #5 |
Pages: | 266 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.56(d) |