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'The Strongest Tie to Unity and Obedience' : Paradoxes of Freethinking, Religion and Colonialism in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague
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'The Strongest Tie to Unity and Obedience' : Paradoxes of Freethinking, Religion and Colonialism in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague
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British novelist Frances Brooke (1724-1789) joined her husband, John Brooke, appointed military chaplain to the British Garrison in Quebec, in 1763 and remained in the colony until they both returmed to England in 1768. The author points out that Frances Brooke's time in Quebec inspired her second novel, The History of Emily Montague (1769), in which Brooke provides detailed impressions of the Canadian landscape and people. The author explains that Brooke uses the novel to promulgate her views on marriage
and the education of women, on certain aspects of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, and, most importantly, on the relations between the British and their newly acquired colony. Although a proto-feminist and enlightened free-thinker, the author argues that Brooke's views on such subjects as marriage and French Catholic Quebecers were often contradictory.
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Lumen: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/La Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle
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Vol. 30
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171-180
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2011
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en
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Vesselova, Natalia. “’The Strongest Tie to Unity and Obedience’ : Paradoxes of Freethinking, Religion and Colonialism in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague.” Lumen: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/La Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle Vol. 30 (2011): 171–180. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/lumen/1900-v1-n1-lumen04/1007722ar.pdf.
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