Emigration, nation, vocation
Subtitle: the literature of English emigration to Canada, 1825-1900
By: Carter F. Hanson.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780870138614
Subjects: Immigrants' writings, Canadian -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Immigrants in literature; Vocation in literature; Middle class in literature; Class consciousness in literature; National characteristics, English, in literature; Middle class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; British -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The literature of landed vocation in Ontario, 1825-1870; title: Masculine and feminine vocation in fiction of the Canadian West, 1870-1900; title: Emigrant gentlewomen and colonial vocation in Ontario, 1830-1870; title: The anxiety of Englishness and hybrid identity in English-Canadian emigrant writings, 1880-1900.