Improved by Cultivation: English-Canadian Prose to 1914 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551110490 ISBN 13: 9781551110493

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1994

Synopsis

This anthology combines some of the finest writing by such well-known writers as Leacock, Moodie, Ernest Thompson Seton and Lucy Maud Montgomery with fascinating pieces by lesser-known names such as George Copway (the first Canadian native writer to have his work published in English) and Lady Agnes Macdonald (the wife of Canada’s first prime minister, and a popular writer of great verve and enthusiasm). In addition to three genres of fiction the anthology includes two important varieties of non-fiction in which early Canadians made a strong and distinctive contribution: Travel and Exploration Narratives and Memoirs and Descriptive Sketches.

About this title

About the Author

R. G. Moyles, a professor in the English Department at the University of Alberta, is the author or editor of several other books including (with Doug Owram) Imperial Dreams and Colonial Realities: British Views of Canada 1880-1914 (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1988).

Review

“A wonderful collection...Moyles has selected a wide variety of writers whose popular and entertaining writing will still resonate with readers today.” ― David Marshall, University of Calgary

“Improved by Cultivation brings attractively together a whole range of late 18th- and early 19th-century episodes, stories and sketches that take Canada and Canadians as their subject...a collection that gives a forceful sense of what people did, said and read in the period that ended with World War I.” ― Professor John Lennox, English Department York University

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1551110490
• ISBN 13: 9781551110493
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Moyles R.G.