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By Great Waters : A Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology
This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province's history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1974.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 Discovery and Early Exploration
- Vinland
- Johan Day's Letter (1497)
- Jacques Cartier Visits the Funks (1534)
- The Letter of Stephen Parmenius (6 August 1583)
- John Guy's Encounter with the Savages (1612)
- John Mason's Account of Newfoundland (1620)
- A Letter from Ferry land (18 August 1622)
- Sir Richard Whitbourne's Description of His Newfoundland Adventures (1623)
- Robert Hayman: 'Composed and Done at Harbour Grace' (1628)
- Vaughan's 'Golden Island' Reconsidered (1630)
- Part 2 Transatlantic Outpost
- James Yonge: A Plymouth Surgeon in Newfoundland (1663)
- Abbe Jean Baudoin: The 'Winter War' of 1696-7
- Government and Religion (1762)
- Jens Haven: 'Here is an Innuit' (1764)
- Griffith Williams: An English View of Irish Settlers (1765)
- Joseph Banks, Scientist and Gentleman (1766)
- George Cartwright: 'Too Many Houses, Too Much Smoke, Too Many People' (1772-3)
- Lawrence Coughlan: 'A Precious People' (1776)
- John Hoskins: A Methodist Missionary in Trinity Bay (1774-84)
- David Buchan's Expedition to the Interior (1811)
- Patrick Morris: A Plea for Reform. The Case of James Landergan(1818)
- William Cormack Reaches the Interior of Newfoundland (1822)
- William Wilson: Shanandithit, the Last of the Beothucks (1823)
- Part 3 The Colonial Era
- Edward Wix: Wrecking (1835)
- Joseph Jukes: 'Overboard with You! Gaffs and Pokers!' (1840)
- Thomas Talbot: 'A Baptism of Violence' (1840)
- Richard Bonnycastle: The Class Structure in Newfoundland (1842)
- Philip Tocque: Drowning a Dog (1846)
- John Grace: The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff (1852)
- Robert Lowell: An Official Examination from Which Something Appears (1858)
- Julian Moreton: A Parson and His People (1863)
- Daniel Prowse: 'The Poor Man's Road' (1880).
- Frederick Lloyd: Winter Scenes from the Great Northern Peninsula (1882-4)
- Moses Harvey: The Great Fire of 8 July 1892
- Henry Beckles Willson: Loiterers (1897)
- Part 4 North Atlantic Dominion
- Norman Duncan: Reflections on the Death of Solomon Stride, Fisherman (1902)
- Dillon Wallace: Prisoners of the Wind (1903)
- James Connolly: The Drawn Shutters (1905)
- Norman Duncan: 'A Great Lottery of Hope and Fortune' (1905)
- Daniel Carroll: Arthur. In Memoriam: Captain Arthur Jackman (1907)
- Wilfred Grenfell: Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1908)
- Horace G. Hutchinson: Outport Man Refashioned (1910)
- Fishermen's Protective Union: 'Forty Thousand Strong' (1913)
- Joshua Stansford Calls on Friends (1910, 1916)
- John Devine: The Badger Drive (c 1915)
- Henry Gordon: Spanish 'Flu in Labrador (1918)
- Nicholas Smith: Coming Home from Labrador (1919)
- George England: 'Man's Mark and Sign and Signal in the North' (1922)
- Edwin Pratt: 'An Edge for Human Grief (1923-32)
- Bob Bartlett's Boyhood (1928)
- Sir William Coaker Bows Out (1930)
- Part 5 Breakers Ahead
- Joseph Smallwood: Newfoundland Today (1931)
- Arthur Scammell: The Six-Horsepower Coaker (1940)
- Margaret Duley: The Healer (1941)
- Peter Dalzel Job: 'White Bread and Canned Food' (1947)
- Arthur Scammell: Hard Cash (1950)
- Ron Pollett: Memories of Didder Hill (1951)
- Farley Mowat: 'This Unquiet Seaboard' (1958)
- Paul West: A Lullaby Too Rough (1963)
- Franklin Russell: The Island of Auks (1965)
- Harold Horwood: Tomorrow will be Sunday (1966)
- Edward Russell: Uncle Mose Begins His Chronicles (1966)
- Alfred Purdy: Beothuck Indian Skeleton in Glass Case (1968)
- Eugene Cloutier: 'What Do the Young People Dream Of?'
- Paul O'Neill: Iceland Poppies (1968)
- Selected Secondary Material on Aspects of Newfoundland Literature.