Atlantic Cosmopolitanism in John Steffler’s The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Abstract: This article reads John Steffler’s 1992 novel about British explorer George Cartwright under the frame of transatlanticism. I argue that Steffler’s Cartwright dramatizes the late eighteenth century shift from feudalist to capitalist economy, the rise of speculative finance and international trade, and the links between cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and the epistemological violence of slavery. Cartwright is cast into a global trade network and comes to occupy a cosmopolitan sensibility, which is demonstrated in the novel through a system of metaphors linking land, sea, and textiles. Cartwright’s cosmopolitanism is continually challenged by different versions of nation-state politics, including nascent American nationalism and the American revolution. His status as a ghost in an eternal present forges a link between historical imperialism and contemporary, American-dominated globalization. Ultimately, the novel poses significant questions about how ideas about transatlantic trade and cosmopolitanism circulate within the Canadian national imaginary.
Attic Shapes and Empty Attics: Patrick Anderson – A Memoir
Abstract: ΤIHE SPEAKER is G.к. CHESTERTON, not P. Anderson. Yet it IHE reminds me irresistibly of Patrick. Not just because pubs ...
Auschwitz: Poetry of Alienation
Abstract: Τhis account of the writing of a poem, “On the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz : Memorial Services, ...
Authenticity and its Discontents: The Mountain and the Valley
Abstract: Thus far, most criticism of Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley has focussed on David’s progressive isolation and the ...
Authorship, Left Modernism, and Communist Power in Eight Men Speak: A Reflection
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This paper examines the contributions of women theatre artists and their negotiations with the male Communist Party apparatus in the creation, performance and subsequent banning of the 1933 play Eight Men Speak.
Autobiographical Writing as a Healing Process: Interview with Alice Masak French
Abstract: IntroductionAlice Masak French is an Inuk woman from the Western Arctic region. She was born in 1930 on Baillie Island. ...
Autour de la question linguistique: le manifeste québécois des années ’60-’70
Abstract: . . . l’intérêt majeur de l’étude du discours-manifeste: il nous en dit long non seulement sur le système dans ...
Avenues of Research Suggested by the Fletchers Castoria Box
Abstract: SОМЕ YEARS AGO I RECEIVED from one of the smaller uni- versities in Ontario a letter from a student telling ...
Avison’s Imitation of Christ the Artist
Abstract: I, LN A REVIEW ARTICLE about The Dumbfounding (in Cana- dian Literature 38), Lawrence M. Jones makes reference to an ...