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The work of words : the writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie

Title
The work of words : the writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie / John Thurston.
Author
Thurston, John Harry, 1955-
Publication
Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description
xii, 264 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Women and literature > Canada > History > 19th century
  • Frontier and pioneer life in literature
  • Women pioneers in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-257) and index.
Contents
1. Between Establishment and Dissent: Susanna Strickland's Youth 1803-32 -- 2. Writing as Resolution: Literary Production 1822-30 -- 3. Literary Affiliation and Religious Crisis: Literary Production 1830-32 -- 4. Emigration / Immigration: The Moodies and Upper Canada 1832-55 -- 5. The Ideal and the Real: Literary Production 1832-52 -- 6. Truths and Opinions: Literary Production 1852-55 -- 7. Roughing It in the Bush: A Case Study in Colonial Contradictions -- 8. Conclusion.
ISBN
077351287X (acid-free paper)
LCCN
97159446
OCLC
  • 35026490
  • ocm35026490
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries