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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... Sensation Literature , " The Hearthstone ( 3 August 1872 ) • 311 3. " Artistic Filth , " The Favorite ( 1 February 1873 ) • 315 Appendix C : Prospectus for The Favorite ⚫ 316 1. " Our First Bow , " The Favorite ( 28 December 1872 ) 2 ...
... sensation was virtue as a sentiment . The two , in their inevitable story - paper rela- tionship , constituted sentimentality - emotion indulged in for its own sake " ( 244 ) . The consumers of this fiction were the broad North American ...
... sensation writers , M. E. Braddon , called Publicans and Sinners , which was serialized simultaneously with its publication in three volumes in England . During the paper's final six months , long after Crawford's work had ceased to ...
... Sensation Novel If Winona's publishing matrix was distinctively North American , its prin- cipal generic model , the sensation novel , has been largely associated with British writers like Wilkie Collins , Mary Elizabeth Braddon , and ...
... sensation writers commenced to come out in full force . " Wynne makes the related point that " the exigencies of the serial form itself became responsible for many of the distinctive generic features of the sensation novel " ( 40 ) . No ...