ENG252Y1 Lecture : Susanna Moodie and Margaret Atwood
Document Summary
Settler-invader society and literary culture in upper canada. Reluctant immigrant: matter of necessity not of choice. Lasted seven years in the busy before moving to belleville. Moodie was literate before she ever got to canada, first at 19. Started to create literary culture in upper canada, very non-literary community, hard to get books. Published sketches from life in the bush and published them later in roughing it in the bush. Published in britain vs. canada, maybe new york. No reference to herself in the first seven paragraphs of introductions. Gender anxiety, no introduction to women bettering his condition more impersonal, authoritative voice, navigating tricky space ideologically, to speak with experience but to maintain identity as a woman. Decorum: literary decorum, style suitable to ones subject matter. Franklin= scientific moodie= argument, outrage at duping immigrants. 133, third line from the last end of paragraph. Is god just to his creatures? brian still hunter www. notesolution. com.
