The Manor House of De Villa Rai (Broadview Editions): A Tale of Canada Under the French Dominion - Softcover

Rosanna Mullins Leprohon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554811309 ISBN 13: 9781554811304

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2014

Synopsis

Rosanna Mullins Leprohon’s The Manor House of De Villerai, A Tale of Canada Under the French Dominion is a literary milestone—it is the first Canadian historical novel, in English or French, to rewrite the conquest of the French Canadians from the perspective of history’s vanquished. Its revisionary account of the fall of New France is framed around a love triangle between the heroine, Blanche De Villerai, her childhood betrothed, Gustave de Montarville, and Blanche’s servant, Rose Lauzon. Popular in its original serial publication and once widely reprinted in French translation, but now out of print, The Manor House of De Villerai is a long-overlooked Canadian classic.

In addition to the text originally serialized in the Family Herald magazine, this Broadview Edition includes extensive documents on the novel’s reception, Leprohon’s historical sources and literary precedents, and maps and art from the period.

About this title

About the Author

Rosanna Mullins Leprohon (1829-79) was a poet and novelist from montreal, Quebec.

Andrea Cabajsky is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Moncton.

From the Back Cover

Rosanna Mullins Leprohon's The Manor House of De Villerai, A Tale of Canada Under the French Dominion is a literary milestone--it is the first Canadian historical novel, in English or French, to rewrite the conquest of the French Canadians from the perspective of history's vanquished. Its revisionary account of the fall of New France is framed around a love triangle between the heroine, Blanche De Villerai, her childhood betrothed, Gustave de Montarville, and Blanche's servant, Rose Lauzon. Popular in its original serial publication and once widely reprinted in French translation, but now out of print, The Manor House of De Villerai is a long-overlooked Canadian classic.

In addition to the text originally serialized in the Family Herald magazine, this Broadview Edition includes extensive documents on the novel's reception, Leprohon's historical sources and literary precedents, and maps and art from the period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554811309
• ISBN 13: 9781554811304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250