ENGL 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Catharine Parr Traill, Anna Brownell Jameson, Susanna Moodie
2 Feb 2017
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Emigration & bush life cultivating bourgeois bodies and racial selves. Think about how white civility is articulated. There are writers who are writing against the notion that white people are the only ones who are civil. She was a traveller (not settler), a writer she had already published seven books before joining her husband -, and a reluctant wife. She visited canada in 1836 in an attempt to reconcile with her estranged husband, who was the attorney general of the upper canada. Her book winter studies and summer rambles (1838) describes her experiences in. Canada from dec. 1836 to aug. 1837: how she maps the canadian landscape, how she sees society forming. She is one of the earliest writers to discuss the crown"s breaking its treaty promises with first nations. Because jameson wasn"t a settler, her works more align with the explorer narratives. In addition to her comments on the newly forming canadian society and government,
