ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Natural Philosophy, Canadian Identity, Coruscant
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The backwoods of canada & roughing it in the bush. These are the last installment in our exploration of settlement literature. Please come see me, or your tas, if you have any issues with your essay. There is a great emphasis in both writers on the veracity and immediacy of the accounts: the epistolary format tends to reinforce this immediacy, but this is a construct of the genre they are using. Moodie and trail were sisters, and their life paralleled each other"s significantly: a lot of settlement writing had a didactic aim, to encourage or brace other settlers to canada. 1 : trail and moodie participate in the genre of settlement guidebook, but they did so from a feminine perspective. This was during a time in which women"s roles in terms off both gender and class were being reevaluated in the new. Vindication of the rights f women by wollenstoncraft.
