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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... nature and place in society that exercised writers and the reading public in England and North America through most of the century . This debate had accel- erated in the decade preceding Winona , yielding such notable documents as John ...
... nature ( especially of the feminine ) in Gothic terms that again bring Richardson's Wacousta to mind . Like many Gothic protagonists , she is a shape - shifter . At one point , she dresses in a European lady's costume and at another she ...
... natural imagery of seasons , forests , and animals . While she is largely , and formulaically , taciturn through much of the narrative , her intrinsically poetic dispo- sition and powerful personality are ultimately and most fully ...
... nature he was " not altogether the slave of imagination " ( 151 ) —only to have him vividly describe his experience of ghosts seen during a stormy night spent at a portage . When Winona and Androsia suddenly reappear after an absence of ...
... Natural Heritage / Natural History , 1994 . Goldie , Terry . Fear and Temptation : The Image of the Indigene in Canadian , Australian , and New Zealand Literatures . Kingston , ON : McGill - Queen's UP , 1989 . Hale , Katherine ...