Rehill, Annie

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Backwoodsmen as ecocritical motif in French Canadian literature: connecting worlds in the wilds

by Rehill, Annie

fromAfter the empire

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"In New France and early Canada, young men who ventured into the forest to hunt and trade with Amerindians (coureurs de bois,?runners of the woods?), later traveling in big teams of canoes (voyageurs), were known for their independence. Often described as half-wild themselves, t…

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Backwoodsmen as ecocritical motif in French Canadian literature: connecting worlds in the wilds

by Rehill, Annie

fromAfter the empire

0 Type: Book

This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depictio…