Literary culture and female authorship in Canada 1760-2000

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: Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada, (Cross/Cultures 63) (): Hammill, Faye: BooksCited by: 9. Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada (Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction)(Book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review [Susan Billingham] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Thomson Gale on Author: Susan Billingham. Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada - Faye Hammill - Google Books “There are two ladies in the province, I am told, who read,” writes Frances Brooke's Arabella Fermor.

Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada was the first work of fiction to be set in Canada, and also the first book to reflect on the situation of the woman writer there. Her analysis of the experience of writing in Canada is continued by the five other writers considered in this study – Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Released on: Janu   In Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada Faye Hammill reconsiders six canonical women writers: Frances Brooke, Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Carol Shields, and Margaret Atwood.

title = "Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada ", abstract = "Winner of the International Council for Canadian Studies Pierre Savard Award. {"}There are two ladies in the province, I am told, who read,' writes Frances Brooke's Arabella Fermor, 'but both are above fifty and are regarded as prodigies of erudition.'Cited by: 9.

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Abstract. Winner of the International Council for Canadian Studies Pierre Savard by: 9. This book turns on the ways in which those aspects of authorship and literary culture in Canada have been inscribed in imaginative, autobiographical and critical texts by the six authors.

It traces the evolving situation of the Canadian woman writer over the course of two centuries, and explores the impact of social and cultural change on the experience of writing in by: 9. Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada was the first work of fiction to be set in Canada, and also the first book to reflect on the situation of the woman writer there.

Her analysis of the experience of writing in Canada is continued by the five other writers considered in this study - Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Author: Faye Hammill. Pris: kr. Häftad, Skickas inom vardagar. Köp Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada av Faye Hammill på Faye Hammill, Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ), xxiv + pp.

Cloth. $ ISBN Get this from a library. Literary culture and female authorship in Canada, [Faye Hammill]. This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.

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