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Using the editorial approach that established the reputation
of L'Année de la science-fiction et du fantastique
québécois, Claude Janelle and his collaborators
expand the scope of their study to Quebec literature of the 19th
century.
Le XIXe siècle fantastique en Amérique française
defines a corpus of fantasy stories and tales, offering summaries
and critical analyses of more than 140 tales, short stories,
legends and fantasy novels.
These reviews shed new light on 19th-century Quebec literature,
revealing a diversity of themes and inspiration that shatters
any simplistic image of a basically monolithic and essentially
edifying literature. Beneath the apparent order of Christian
morality, subversion is smoldering...
This is an opportunity to rediscover some remarkable and unjustly
forgotten texts, and authors who laid the foundations for a Quebec
national literature that has since established its reputation.
Le XIXe siècle fantastique en Amérique française
also includes an anthology of ten fantasy tales, many of the
most captivating and representative of the production of the
period, with two unpublished stories by Armand de Haerne, "Jean
le maudit ou le Revenant sous la glace" and "Nésime
le tueur."
- Foreword by Jacques Lacoursière.
The anthology includes the following texts :
p. 259 "Jean le maudit ou le Revenant sous la glace,"
Armand de Haerne (previously unpublished)
p. 281 "Maison hantée : le Hibou," Pamphile
LeMay
p. 291 "L'Amiral du brouillard," Faucher de Saint-Maurice
p. 305 "Une histoire de loup-garou," Louvigny de Montigny
p. 313 "L'Iroquoise du lac Saint-Pierre," Louis Fréchette
p. 321 "L'Auberge de la mort," Gaston-P. Labat
p. 325 "L'Anse du Trépassé," Henry de
Puyjalon
p. 331 "Le Grand-Lièvre et la Grande-Tortue,"
Joseph-Charles Taché
p. 335 "La Nuée du diable," Firmin Picard
p. 345 "Nésime le tueur," Armand de Haerne (previously
unpublished)
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