Winona; or, The Foster-SistersBroadview Press, 2006 M10 16 - 334 páginas The prize-winning entry in a national competition for distinctively Canadian fiction, Winona was serialized in a Montreal story paper in 1873. The novel focuses on the lives of two foster-sisters raised in the northern Ontario wilderness: Androsia Howard, daughter of a retired military officer, and Winona, the daughter of a Huron chief. As the story begins, both have come under the sway of the mysterious and powerful Andrew Farmer, who has proposed to Androsia while secretly pursuing Winona. With the arrival of Archie Frazer, the son of an old military friend, there is a violent crisis, and the scene shifts southward as Archie takes the foster-sisters via Toronto to his family’s estate in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Farmer follows, and the narrative moves towards a sensational climax. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition place Winona in the contexts of Crawford’s career, the contemporary market for serialized fiction, the sensation novel of the 1860s, nineteenth-century representations of women and North American indigenous peoples, and the emergence of Canadian literary nationalism in the era following Confederation. |
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... Archie's Meeting With Androsia , " which pictures the young officer being greeted by the maiden in buckskins at the threshold of her father's home while a heavily bearded Andrew Farmer looks on , appraising Archie's demeanour . The ...
... Archie Frazer , who provides the initial ( and innocent ) point of view . Archie rather resem- bles the passive heroes of Sir Walter Scott , whose role is to experience the unfamiliar , " savage , " and dangerous rather than to take ...
... Archie Frazer , Theodore Denville , and Percy Grace . As the villain of the novel's subplot , she corresponds to Farmer but lacks his depth and impressiveness , and her own end is bathetic and ironic rather than tragic . While the ...
... Archie's manner towards her has changed ( 174 ) . Who looks at whom , and how , is an important matter in Crawford's novel , which throws exceptional emphasis on the colour of people's eyes , the qual- ity of their gaze , and the ...
... Archie first glimpses her peering from the loft at Colonel Howard's lodge , he sees " a pair of immense dark eyes , burning like stars of fire " ( 88 ) . She sustains this intensity of gaze throughout the narrative , suggesting an ...