 | The American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: Ideologies and Utopia in Antoine Gerin-Lajoie''s ''Jean Rivard'' Subjects: Gérin-Lajoie Antoine 1824–1882. Jean Rivard; Gérin-Lajoie Antoine 1824–1882 -- Political and social views; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; Quebec (Province) in literature; Ideology in literature; Utopias in literature; Antonine Gerin-Lajoie's Jean Rivard (1862-4) is recognized as a landmark novel in Quebec literature. In this study, Robert Major challenges this view of the novel and of the political and intellectual millieu in which it was produced. He suggests that Quebec culture in the nineteenth century was far richer and more diverse. Major Robert : ROBERT MAJOR is a professor in the Département de français at the Unviersity of Ottawa. |
