In which our heroes talk about aspects of emerging French-Canadian nationalism in Canada in the late 19th century. We talk about the national anthem, Henri Bourassa, Gilbert Parker's novel The Seats of the Mighty, and more.
Sources/Further Reading:
- Harris, Robert. Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada's National Anthem, McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
- Parker, Gilbert. The Seats of the Mighty, 1896. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6229/6229-h/6229-h.htm
- Rothenburger, Sunnie. "Terror, Love, and the National Voyeur: Gilbert Parker's The Seats of the Mighty." English Studies in Canada, vol. 34, no. 2, 2008, pp. 91-112.
- Stockdale, John C. "The French Canadian According to Gilbert Parker." Modern Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1973, pp. 97–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3194458.
- Waterston, Elizabeth. "The Politics of Conquest in Canadian Historical Fiction." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 3, no. 1, 1969, pp. 116–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24776196.
