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- Title
J.-P. Frénais's Sabotage of Frances Brooke's Colonial Agenda in The History of Emily Montague: The "Province of Quebec" Viewed from Paris.
- Authors
Carr Jr., Thomas M.
- Abstract
Critics and historians who have used J.-P. Frénais's translation of Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague (1769) have not recognized how much he changed Brooke's agenda for transforming Canadians into loyal, English-speaking, Anglican subjects of George III. Her book, often considered the first Canadian novel, was published midway between the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that established the "Province of Quebec" and the 1774 Québec Act that formalized many of the accommodations that Governors James Murray and Guy Carleton had made in implementing the Proclamation. This article examines sensitive points where Frénais made cuts, additions, and rewrote passages to blunt Brooke's agenda: the value of colonies, her boosterism for Canada, the loyalty of Canadians to the new regime, political rights, and religious toleration. Frénais's changes were apparently not based on any special knowledge of Canada but on tensions in France itself and censorship requirements, making them an unstudied witness to French reactions to the loss of Canada.
- Subjects
BROOKE, Frances, ca. 1724-1789; HISTORY of Emily Montague, The (Book); CANADIANS; GEORGE III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820; PROCLAMATIONS
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2022.18