1) John Richardson’s Wacousta and the transfer of medievalist romance

Authors :: Czarnowus, Anna
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021.
Abstract: John Richardson’s Wacousta exemplifies both the cultural transfer of gothicisms into Upper Canada and the transmission of romance as a genre from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when in this very case it adopts the form of colonial romance. It shows the two manners in which the Middle Ages existed in the Enlightenment, which apparently continued in Romanticism, at least in Canada. The choice of 1763 as a temporal setting entails the presence of indigenous peopl...