Our Dear Cousins the Americans
Sara Jeannette Duncan in Washington
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20461815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janice Fiamengo (University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 464-477 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Review of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-2011 • E-ISSN: 1943-9954 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02722011.2010.519397 |
| OpenAlex | W1980616596 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
As a young woman, Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861–1922) spent nearly a year writing for the Washington Post on literary and cultural matters, and published many of her assessments of American society in The Week, Goldwin Smith's journal of Canadian affairs. Her articles repay close scrutiny not only for their inherent interest as witty observations of America by an engaged Canadian observer, but also for the manner in which they reveal Duncan's national preoccupations and biases. Approaching the Republic with neither antipathy nor deference, Duncan turned her newspaper sketches into an occasion for wide-ranging cultural comment on the nature of the republican experiment – especially concerning America's claims to freedom and human flourishing. She found the results encouraging, if not without salutary warnings, for Canadian efforts in the same direction
Antipathy · Deference · Flourishing · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Scrutiny · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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