The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Title | The Afterlife of George Cartwright PDF eBook |
Author | John Steffler |
Publisher | New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2011-05-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1551994461 |
In this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada’s 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as “soldier, diarist, entrepreneur,” George Cartwright emerges in Steffler’s tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition. Until this time Cartwright’s greatest legacy has been the place in Labrador named after him and the journal he wrote during his years there, when he lived amongst Native people and ran a successful trading post. Now his legacy becomes our own: a telling portrait of our past; a warning.
The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Title | The Afterlife of George Cartwright PDF eBook |
Author | John Steffler |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart Limited |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780771082450 |
In this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada’s 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as “soldier, diarist, entrepreneur,” George Cartwright emerges in Steffler’s tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition. Until this time Cartwright’s greatest legacy has been the place in Labrador named after him and the journal he wrote during his years there, when he lived amongst Native people and ran a successful trading post. Now his legacy becomes our own: a telling portrait of our past; a warning.
The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright
Title | The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright PDF eBook |
Author | George Cartwright |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 2008-06-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0773574565 |
An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.
Echoing Silence
Title | Echoing Silence PDF eBook |
Author | John Moss |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0776604414 |
The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction. This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the elders' and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations of explorers and writers and illustrates how the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants. Published in English.
Speculative Fictions
Title | Speculative Fictions PDF eBook |
Author | Herb Wyile |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780773523159 |
An exploration of the proliferation of historical novels in English-Canadian literature over the last thirty years.
DisPossession
Title | DisPossession PDF eBook |
Author | Marlene Goldman |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2012-02-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0773587314 |
Much of Canada's contemporary fiction displays an eerie fascination with the supernatural. In DisPossession, Marlene Goldman investigates the links between spectral motifs and the social and historical influences that have shaped Canada. Incorporating both psychoanalytic and non-traditional methods of literary analysis, Goldman explores the ways in which spectral fictions are an expression of definitive Canadian experiences such as the clashes between invading settler and indigenous populations, the losses incurred by immigration and diaspora, and the alienation of the female body. In so doing, Goldman unearths some of the "ghosts" of Canadian society itself - old tensions and injustices that continue to haunt ethnic and gender relations. An important contribution to the discussion of the challenges posed by the Gothic to dominant literary, political, and social narratives, DisPossession asserts that Canadian spectral fictions have the power to alter accepted versions of Canadian history by invoking and troubling the process of generating collective memories.
Literary Environments
Title | Literary Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Britta Olinder |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9789052012964 |
"Selection of the literary articles presented at the 7th triennial conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies ... held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2002"--P. 9.