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This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries.
Sommario
Chapter One:
Archaeologies of Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada
References and Further Reading
Chapter Two:
Frances Brooke and the English Heroines of the Novel of Sensibility
References and Further Reading
Chapter Three:
Performances of Settler Femininity: Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill
References and Further Reading
Chapter Four:
Ralph Connor and the Narrative of Muscular ChristianityReferences and Further Reading
Chapter Five:
Georgina Sime and Pauline Johnson, and the Rise of the New Woman
References and Further Reading
Chapter Six:
Jane Rule and the Development of Lesbian Literature in Canada
References and Further Reading
Chapter Seven:
Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and the (Post)Modern Woman
References and Further Reading
Chapter Eight:
Recuperating Indigenous and Racialized Masculinities
References and Further Reading
Chapter Nine:
"Moving Over": Racialized Contemporary Womanhood
References and Further Reading
Chapter Ten:
Transgender, Two Spirit, and Gender-Nonconforming Literatures in Canada
References and Further Reading
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Linda M. Morra is currently Professor of English at Bishop's University, situated on unceded Abenaki territory, the former Jack and Nancy Farley Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University (2021-2022), and the former Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (2016-2017). She completed her doctorate in Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. In addition to editing and writing nine other books, she also authored
Moving Archives, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English (2020), and co-edited (with Dr. Sarah Henzi)
On the Other Side(s) of 150, which won the Canadian Studies Network Prize (2021).
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This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries.
