Winona; or, The Foster-SistersBroadview Press, 2006 M10 16 - 334 páginas The prize-winning entry in a national competition for distinctively Canadian fiction, Winona was serialized in a Montreal story paper in 1873. The novel focuses on the lives of two foster-sisters raised in the northern Ontario wilderness: Androsia Howard, daughter of a retired military officer, and Winona, the daughter of a Huron chief. As the story begins, both have come under the sway of the mysterious and powerful Andrew Farmer, who has proposed to Androsia while secretly pursuing Winona. With the arrival of Archie Frazer, the son of an old military friend, there is a violent crisis, and the scene shifts southward as Archie takes the foster-sisters via Toronto to his family’s estate in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Farmer follows, and the narrative moves towards a sensational climax. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition place Winona in the contexts of Crawford’s career, the contemporary market for serialized fiction, the sensation novel of the 1860s, nineteenth-century representations of women and North American indigenous peoples, and the emergence of Canadian literary nationalism in the era following Confederation. |
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... English at Trent University and York University , the Frost Centre for Graduate Canadian Studies at Trent , and the Graduate Programme in English at York . To those graduate assistants - Kelly Beers , Jennifer Cannataro , Emily Dockrill ...
... English domestic novel through introducing the stuff of melodrama into the households of ostensibly ordinary middle - class or aristocratic characters . Collins's The Woman in White ( 1860 ) is usually credited with inaugurating the ...
... English - Canadian literature was provided by the celebrated part - Mohawk writer Pauline Johnson in her article " A Strong Race Opinion : On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction , " which appeared in 1892 in the Toronto Sunday Globe . In ...
... English - Canadian literature as " the inevitable ' Winona " " : " Once or twice she has borne another appella- tion , but it always has a ' Winona ' sound about it .... We meet her as a Shawnee , as a Sioux , as a Huron , and then ...
... English typical of her myriad sisters ( and brothers , and fathers ) in nineteenth - century fiction by white authors . She tends to eschew first- and second - person pronouns ( " Winona must speak ... and her white sister must listen ...