FOREST OF BOURG-MARIE by Susie F. Harrison, Cynthia Sugars ( 9781771120296 )

Item Details

Title:

FOREST OF BOURG-MARIE

By:

Susie F. Harrison, Cynthia Sugars

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£20.99

Our price:

£18.89

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£2.10

ISBN 10:

1771120290

ISBN 13:

9781771120296

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 May, 2015

Pages:

150

Description:

Harrison's twist on the traditional Gothic plotline offers an inversion of such Gothic motifs as the decadent aristocrat and ancestral curse by playing on questions of illegitimacy and cultural preservation.

Synopsis:

In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old French Canadian who is lured to the United States by the promise of financial reward, only to be rejected by his grandfather upon his return. In doing so, the novel offers a powerful critique of the personal and cultural consequences of emigration out of Canada. In her afterword, Cynthia Sugars considers how The Forest of Bourg-Marie reimagines the Gothic tradition from a settler Canadian perspective, turning to a French-Canadian setting with distinctly New-World overtones. Harrison's twist on the traditional Gothic plotline offers an inversion of such Gothic motifs as the decadent aristocrat and ancestral curse by playing on questions of illegitimacy and cultural preservation.

Publication:

Canada

Imprint:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

CANADIAN GOTHIC

CANADIAN GOTHIC (HB)

CANADIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY (HB)

CROWDED OUT AND OTHER SKETCHES (PB)

CROWDED OUT!