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With this anthology, Yves Brunelle made available to the English reader and student the entire repertory of nineteenth century French fiction in Canada.
This book includes the full range of this literature in extract form, from Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, the Younger, The Treasure Seeker, or The Influence of a Book (1837) (Le chercheur de trésor ou l'influence d'un livre) to Pamphile LeMay's Blood and Gold (Sang et or) from his Contes vrais of 1899.
How often have we heard of Patrice Lacombe's The Family Farm (1846) (La terre paternelle) or Pierre-J.-O. Chauveau's Charles Guérin (1847)? These fables romances contain a wealth of folklore; they reflect the motivation and spirit of a whole people from its beginning on this continent in the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth.
The social history as preserved by French Canada's storytellers, romancers and novelists is more immediate and speaks to the reader in an unambiguous way that formal historians rarely achieve.
Includes works by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Amédée Papineau, Napoléon Aubin, Pierre Petitclair, Alphonse Poitras, L.-A. Oliver, Pierre-J.-O. Chauveau, Abbé Henri-Raymond Casgrain, Patrice Lacombe, Joseph-Charles Taché, and Joseph Marmette.
Yves Brunelle (Author, Editor)
Born in Montreal in 1927, Yves Brunelle attended Ecole St. Gerard and D’Arcy McGee High School in Montreal. He received his BA in English from St. Francis Xavier University, his MA in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, and his PhD in English from the University of New Brunswick. He is a member of the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures and the Atlantic Canada Institute.
Brunelle has taught both French and English, and was Program Director for Radio-Canada in Moncton and producer of “Public Affairs” for CBC Halifax. He is now a professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University.
Among his other publications are the translations of Angline de Montbrun by Laure Conan, and Un homme et son péché (The Woman and the Miser) by Claude-Henri Grignon. Professor Brunelle is an advisory editor for Harvest House’s French Writers of Canada Series.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Stranger (The Legend of Rose Latulipe), Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, the Younger
The Man from Labrador, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, the Younger
Caroline: a Canadian Legend, Amédée Papineau
Plan for the Canadian Republic, Napoléon Aubin
A Labrador Adventure, Pierre Petitclair
My Uncle's Story, Alphonse Poitras
The Faithful Debtor, L.-A. Oliver
Charles Guérin, Pierre-J.-O. Chauveau
The Sorceress, Abbé Henri-Raymond Casgrain
The Ancestral Farm, Patrice Lacombe
Foresters and Voyagers, Joseph-Charles Taché
François de Bienville, Joseph Marmette
The Last Cannon Ball, Joseph Marmette
The Roussis' Fire, Faucher de Saint-Maurice
The Werewolf, Benjamin Sulte
Oneille, Louis Fréchette
Tipite Vallerand, Louis Fréchette
For Our Native Land, Jules-Paul Tardivel
Blood and Gold, Pamphile LeMay