The Journals of Susanna Moodie - Atwood, Margaret; Moodie, Susanna

As New; This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of the colonial mentality. In poems about the arrival and the Moodies' seven years in the bush, which were followed by a more civilized life in Belleville, and about Mrs. Moodie in old age and then after death - in the present, when she observes the 20th century destroying her past and its meaning - Atwood has created haunting meditations on an English gentlewoman's confrontation with the wilderness, and compelling variations on the themes of dislocation and alienation, nature and civilization.
As New
Soft cover
Oxford University Press
1995
Toronto, Ontario, Canada