1st Edition

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada

By Linda M. Morra Copyright 2023
218 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler texts by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, to more contemporary texts by Jane Rule, Alice Munro, Joshua... Read more

Chapter One:

Archaeologies of Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada
References and Further Reading

Chapter Two:

Frances Brooke and the English Heroines of the Novel of Sensibility
References and Further Reading

Chapter Three:
Performances of Settler Femininity: Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill

References and Further Reading

Chapter Four:
Ralph Connor and the Narrative of Muscular Christianity
References and Further Reading

Chapter Five:
Georgina Sime and Pauline Johnson, and the Rise of the New Woman

References and Further Reading

Chapter Six:
Jane Rule and the Development of Lesbian Literature in Canada
References and Further Reading


Chapter Seven:
Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and the (Post)Modern Woman
References and Further Reading

Chapter Eight:

Recuperating Indigenous and Racialized Masculinities

References and Further Reading

Chapter Nine:

"Moving Over": Racialized Contemporary Womanhood

References and Further Reading

Chapter Ten:
Transgender, Two Spirit, and Gender-Nonconforming Literatures in Canada

References and Further Reading

Biography

Linda M. Morra is currently Professor of English at Bishop’s University, situated on unceded Abenaki territory, the former Jack and Nancy Farley Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University (2021–2022), and the former Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (2016–2017). She completed her doctorate in Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. In addition to editing and writing nine other books, she also authored Moving Archives, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English (2020), and co-edited (with Dr. Sarah Henzi) On the Other Side(s) of 150, which won the Canadian Studies Network Prize (2021).