Recovering Canada's first novelist
Subtitle: proceedings from the John Richardson Conference
By: edited by Catherine Sheldrick Ross.
Contributors: Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill; Distributed in Canada and the United States by Firefly Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Erin, Ont; Scarborough, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Richardson, Major 1796-1852 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; Canada -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Canada -- In literature -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: John Norton / Carl F. Klinck; title: Writing Richardson's biography / David Beasley; title: The Americanization of Wacousta / Douglas Cronk; title: Wacousta and the gothic tradition / I.S. MacLaren; title: Reading and convention in Richardson / Jay Macpherson; title: Patterns of significance in the fiction of John Richardson / Michael Hurley.