The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.
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Introduction: Home Ground and Foreign Territory
Reflections on the Situation and Study of Early Canadian Literature in the Long Confederation Period
Periodicals First: The Beginnings of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver
Rediscovering Re(Dis)covering: Back to the Second-Wave Feminist Future
Lady Audley's Secret versus The Abbot: Reconsidering the Form of Canadian Historical Fiction through the Content of Library Catalogues
"Not Legitimately Gothic": Spiritualism and Early Canadian Literature
The Canadian Canon, Being "On the Other Side of the Latch" and Sara Jeannette Duncan's Anglo-Indian Memoir
The Duelling Authors: Settler Imperatives and Agnes Laut's Denigration of Pierre Falcon
Anna's Monuments: The Work of Mourning, the Gender of Melancholia and Canadian Women's War Writing
Hidden Hunger: Early Canadian Women Poets
Judging by Appearances: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Ontology of Early Canadian Spirits
Hallowed Spaces/Public Places: Women's Literary Voices and The Acadian Recorder 1850-1870
Who's In and Who's Out: Recovering Minor Authors and the Pesky Question of Critical Evaluation
Texts and Contexts: CEECT's Scholarly Editions
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