French Canadian Prose Masters: The Nineteenth Century

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Yves Brunelle
Harvest House, 1978 - Fiction - 338 pages
French Canadian Prose Masters makes the repertoire of nineteenth century French fiction in Canada available to the English reader and student. This volume presents a full range of French Canadian literature, containing a wealth of folklore, and reflecting the spirit of a people from its beginnings on this continent to the end of the nineteenth century. The social history as preserved by French Canada's storytellers, romancers and novelists speaks to the reader in an unambiguous way that formal histories rarely achieve.

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Born in Montreal in 1927, Yves Brunelle attended École St. Gérard and D'Arcy McGee High School in Montreal. He received his BA in English from St. Francis Xavier University, his MA in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, and his PhD in English from the University of New Brunswick. He was a member of the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures and the Atlantic Canada Institute. Brunelle taught both in French and English, and was Program Director for Radio-Canada in Moncton and producer of "Public Affairs" for CBC Halifax. He then became a professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University. Among his other publications are the translations of Angéline de Montbrun, by Laure Conan, and Un homme et son péché (The Woman and the Miser) by Claude-Henri Grignon. Professor Brunelle was an advisory editor for Harvest House's French Writers of Canada Series.

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