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The Honest Man/L’Homme Honnête : The Colonial Gentleman, the Development of the Press, and the Race and Gender Discourses of the Newspapers in the British “Province of Quebec,” 1764-1791
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The Honest Man/L’Homme Honnête : The Colonial Gentleman, the Development of the Press, and the Race and Gender Discourses of the Newspapers in the British “Province of Quebec,” 1764-1791
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The author examines the new public world of print that emerged and developed in the “Province of Quebec” from 1764 to 1791. Using discourse analysis, she argues that the press reflected and contributed to producing the race and gender privileges of the White, respectable gentleman, also called the “honest man,” regardless of whether he was a Francophone Canadien or an Anglo Quebecer. The author concludes that when Quebec’s only newspapers, the Quebec Gazette, the Gazette du commerce et littéraire, the Montreal Gazette, and the Quebec Herald and Universal Miscellany disseminated discourses that associated manhood with loyalty to the English king, fashionable women with male status and problematic womanhood, “Blackness” with enslavement, an infantile nature, and exotic origins, and Indigeneity with violence, they legitimized the dominance of loyal White gentlemen in society regardless of their ethnic, political, or economic interests.
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PhD dissertation
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Queen's University
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Kingston, ON
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2018
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vii-236p.
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en
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Martin, Valerie. “The Honest Man/L’Homme Honnête : The Colonial Gentleman, the Development of the Press, and the Race and Gender Discourses of the Newspapers in the British ‘Province of Quebec,’ 1764-1791.” PhD dissertation, Queen’s University, 2018. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/24848/Martin_Valerie_I_201809_PhD.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y.
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