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In this Chapter the typology of the prefaces will be presented. However, it is necessary that before the presentation, some methodological aspects be discussed briefly. First, it should be clear that the preface typology is but one part of the systemic analysis of the prefaces yet it can stand on its own — as a typology.
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Because of the structure of the preface types and their characteristics, a chronological presentation of the corpus was not possible. Where possible, the preface characteristics were chronologically arranged.
The sources of preface quotes can be verified with the bibliographical information contained in the Appendix (A CIHM list of English-Canadian and French-Canadian Novels with Prefaces).
Enoch Wood was a Methodist minister of note (cf. Dictionary of Canadian Biography XI 935–36).
Cf. Perosa 139–71.
The Chambers brothers of Edinburgh published several important works of the time, such as Chambers’ Encyclopaedia and the Chambers’ Edinburgh Jourmal.
Cf. Diffy 3–5.
Malcolm“ is MacLean Sinclair (cf. Klinck I 309).
I.e., to enlighten the uninformed English public about colonial life.
Here, Beyond the Marshes is classified as a short novel.
Cf. The Canadian Encyclopedia (I 2) and Gwyn (273–92).
This strategy is of note because normally the nihil obstat stands on its own, without any explanation.
While the prefacer appears to appeal to a specific, educated, and literary readership, the rhetoric of the preface certainly indicates a secondary intention. This is to direct the willing reader (the “citadines” and the “élégants”) to position him/herself in the group of the educated readers.
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Tötösy de Zepetnek, S. (1993). A Typology of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Prefaces. In: Barsch, A. (eds) The Social Dimensions of Fiction. Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft, vol 15. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-13909-6_3
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