Roughing It in the Bush: Authoritative, Text Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

Moodie, Susanna

ISBN 10: 0393926672 / ISBN 13: 9780393926675

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Seller Inventory # BSM.18VJK

Synopsis:

She went on to chronicle her experiences in this personal, accurate, and often humorous account.  This Norton Critical Edition of Roughing It in the Bush provides everything that a student needs to analyze and enjoy Moodie’s tale. A thorough “Backgrounds” section includes images, a map, contemporary reviews of Roughing It, and letters written by Moodie to her husband during the winter of 1839, at which time he was serving a military appointment in the Victoria District and she and her children were facing life-threatening illnesses. “Criticism” contains ten essays by leading Canadian scholars and authors, among them Margaret Atwood, Carl Ballstadt, D. M. R. Bentley, Susan Glickman, and Michael Peterman. A Chronology of Susanna Moodie’s life and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Author: Michael Peterman is Professor of English at Trent University. He is the author of Roberson Davies, Susanna Moodie: A Life, and “This Great Epoch of Our Lives”: Susanna Moodie’s “Roughing It in the Bush”. He is the editor of The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill, and is co-editor of Susanna Moodie: Letters of a Lifetime with Carl Ballstadt and Elizabeth Hopkins and Letters of Love and Duty: The Correspondence of John and Susanna Moodie with Carl Ballstadt and Elizabeth Hopkins. He is a past editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Roughing It in the Bush: Authoritative, Text...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good