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The American Dream in Nineteenth-century Quebec
Robert Major
其他書名
Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gérin-Lajoie's Jean Rivard
出版Buffalo, 1996
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN080200766X9780802007667
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vqpcAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Antoine 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 the 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 milieu 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 is 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 ways in which the United States functioned in Quebec political imagery as an icon of democracy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved