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Between Empire and Republic - America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination (Hardcover)
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Between Empire and Republic - America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
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In 1837, a small group of rebels proclaimed the short-lived
Republic of Canada. Between then and the Act of Confederation of
1867, colonial Canadians tried to imagine the future of their
communities in North America. The choice between monarchy and
republicanism shaped both colonial self-images and images of the
United States; it also drove the political deliberations that
eventually united the colonies of British North America into a
self-governing Dominion under the British Crown. Between Empire and
Republic is a thematic exploration of the political discourse
embedded in the literary output of the period. Colonial authors
Susanna Moodie, Th. Ch. Haliburton, and John Richardson enjoyed
transatlantic popularity and explained colonial realities to their
British, Canadian, and American readership. Collectively, their
writings serve as the lens into colonial Canadian perceptions of
American and British political ideas and institutions. Between
Empire and Republic discusses North America as a literary contact
zone where British principles of constitutional monarchy competed
with American ideas of republicanism and democratic
self-government. The author argues that political ideas in
pre-Confederation Canada filtered into the literary works of the
time, creating two settler-colonial communities whose recognizable
cultural characteristics echoed public attitudes towards the
political projects underpinning them.
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