Name: The American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gerin-Lajoie's 'Jean Rivard' (en Inglés)
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Author: Major, Robert
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The American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gerin-Lajoie's 'Jean Rivard' (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Robert Major

Editorial

University of Toronto Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6x1.4 cm

Peso

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781487577124

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Canadá
Estudios literarios: c. 1800-c. 1900

The American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gerin-Lajoie's 'Jean Rivard' (en Inglés)

Robert Major (Autor) · University of Toronto Press · Tapa Blanda

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Antonine Gerin-Lajoie's Jean Rivard (1862-4) is recognized as a landmark novel in Quebec literature. It has come to be regarded as a typical mid-nineteenth-century example of the conservative and reactionary nationalism and patriotism into which French Canadians withdrew after the crushing of the Patriotes in 1837 and 1838. In this brilliant and iconoclastic study, which is an adaptation and translation into English of his 'Jean Rivard' ou l'Art de reussir: Ideologies et utopie dans l'oeuvre d'Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, published in 1991. Robert Major challenges this view of the novel and of the political and intellectual millieu in which it was produced. He suggests that Quebec culture in the nineteenth century was far richer and more diverse than the prevailing view allows. While Jean Rivard is a novel about settlement, the need to develop the virgin territories of Canada, Major contends that it also a success story based on the American model of Horatio Alger -- a novel which advocates economic liberalism and urbanization as well as rugged individualism. Through his analysis of Jean Rivard Major re-examines the attitudes to the United States common in the period and points to the way sin which the United States functioned in Quebec political imagery as an icon of democracy.