TY  - GEN
T1  - Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence
A1  - Fletcher, Edward Taylor
A2  - Gifford, James
LA  - eng
PB  - Athabasca University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-95476
AB  - Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher’s writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. In this volume, James Gifford has gathered and annotated Fletcher’s essays and poems, writings that describe a nineteenth-century Canadian cultural life far more cosmopolitan than what we might have imagined.

Fletcher was a voracious reader of works in many languages and although he was oriented toward Britain, his writing notably reflects a gaze fixed on a horizon much further away. His work therefore stands in contrast to the tendency of later Canadian writers, who focus inward on the nation, and on issues of Canadian identity. His work as a surveyor allowed him to travel across the country, observing the Canadian landscape which appears interwoven with different literary traditions in his metrically complex poetry. By recuperating Fletcher’s works, Gifford expands our view of nineteenth-century Canadian literature and establishes Fletcher as a remarkable literary figure worthy of attention.
SN  - 9781771993449
SN  - 9781771993456
SN  - 9781771993463
KW  - Confederation, Archibald Lampman, Charles Mair, Duncan Campbell Scott, Romanticism, Canadian literature, poetry, travel writing
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
ER  -