Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada

Linda M. Morra is currently Professor of English at Bishop’s University, situated on unceded Abenaki territory, the former Jack and Nancy Farley Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University (2021–2022), and the former Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (2016–2017). She completed her doctorate in Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. In addition to editing and writing nine other books, she also authored Moving Archives, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English (2020), and co-edited (with Dr. Sarah Henzi) On the Other Side(s) of 150, which won the Canadian Studies Network Prize (2021).

• Chapter One:Archaeologies of Gender and Sexuality in Literature in CanadaReferences and Further ReadingChapter Two:Frances Brooke and the English Heroines of the Novel of SensibilityReferences and Further ReadingChapter Three:Performances of Settler Femininity: Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr TraillReferences and Further ReadingChapter Four:Ralph Connor and the Narrative of Muscular ChristianityReferences and Further ReadingChapter Five:Georgina Sime and Pauline Johnson, and the Rise of the New WomanReferences and Further ReadingChapter Six:Jane Rule and the Development of Lesbian Literature in CanadaReferences and Further ReadingChapter Seven:Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and the (Post)Modern WomanReferences and Further ReadingChapter Eight:Recuperating Indigenous and Racialized MasculinitiesReferences and Further ReadingChapter Nine:"Moving Over": Racialized Contemporary WomanhoodReferences and Further ReadingChapter Ten:Transgender, Two Spirit, and Gender-Nonconforming Literatures in CanadaReferences and Further Reading

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