The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction

by Margot Northey

Book Overview

Gothic elements in English-Canadian fiction have generally been regarded as idiosyncratic outcroppings, or, in French-Canadian novels, as a temporary phenomenon rather than as part of a recurring Canadian pattern. By analysing a number of Canadian works of fiction from the nineteenth century to the present, Margot Northey demonstrates that Gothicism, in varying degrees and of various kinds, has been a continuing feature of our fiction. She uses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802062962
• ISBN13: 9780802062963
• Release Date: December 1976
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher