The Several Lives of Joan the Spinner : Honoré Beaugrand’s Jeanne la fileuse : épisode de l’émigration franco-canadienne aux États-Unis and the Making and Remaking of a French Canadian/Franco-American Novel

The Several Lives of Joan the Spinner : Honoré Beaugrand’s Jeanne la fileuse : épisode de l’émigration franco-canadienne aux États-Unis and the Making and Remaking of a French Canadian/Franco-American Novel

Critical and historical analysis of of Honoré Beaugrand's 1877-1878 serialized novel, Jeanne la fileuse. Speculation on the author's political, social, and artistic motives for writing about nineteenth-century French Canadian emigration to New England, and the uniqueness of his liberal perspective at that time. Some thoughts on the novel's serialized publication in multiple newspapers, its soon-after publication as a single volume, and its twentieth-century re-publication in France and the United States. Differences among the published versions, varying intentions of the publishers, and consideration for each version's distinct audience.

Shanahan, Brendan

2011

English

Journal Article

1870-1930; New England; Fall River, Massachusetts

1940-0764

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Journal of Transnational American Studies

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8f1567z4 (full text available here)

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