Savages versus settlers, wildness versus wheatfields : an ecocritical approach to the (European) settlement story in early Canadian Prairie fiction

• Main Author: Ternier Daniels, Elizabeth Frances
• Other Authors: Kerr, Donald C., Waiser, William A., Harrison, Dick, Denham, W. Paul
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 1995
• Subjects: prairie writers; literature; mythology > Canadian west; ecosystems; Indian; Steele; Goodman; Harwood; McClung; Metis; Nelson River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-03132008-080442

The experience of wilderness and of homesteading on the prairies provided the primary subject matter for Canadian prairie fiction in the final decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. My thesis uses ecocriticism to make a connection between the cultural value...