Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a “pulpit” from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God’s intention for Creation was a “Fair Deal” for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a perfect place to begin to bring that about.
Woman suffrage, temperance and the ordination of women were keystones in the battle — engaged, in contrast to contemporary stereotypes, with a wit and compelling humour that won over enemies as it delighted her allies. Literature as Pulpit explores Nellie McClung’s vision of a “better world,” and the impediments to it, as expressed through her novels and her feminist “tract,” In Times Like These. It addresses the profoundly anti-feminist context within which McClung was forced to make her arguments, and notes her indebtedness to other feminist writers and thinkers of her day. Throughout, McClung’s religion of “active care” emerges as a consistent and harmonizing theme which integrates her feminism and social activism into a single empowering vision for social change.
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- Includes bibliographical references: p. [231]-236
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- 305.42/092
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- 20
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- 9780889205635 0889202354
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- BR1725.M3563
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- W37 1993eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 236 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 9
- Introduction 10
- Notes 16
- I: A Religion of Active Care: The Pearlie Watson Trilogy 20
- 1. On Writing 20
- 2. The Pearlie Watson Trilogy 24
- Notes 60
- II: The Importance of Discernment: Painted Fires 64
- Notes 90
- III: In Times Like These: The Anti-Feminist Context 94
- 1.The Reviews 95
- 2. The Anti-Feminist Context 97
- a. Sir Almroth Wright 98
- b. Stephen Leacock 114
- c. Sir Rodmond Roblin 123
- Notes 133
- IV: In Times Like Hers: An Analysis of In Times Like These 146
- Notes 185
- Conclusion 194
- Notes 200
- Appendices 202
- A. Nellie McClung Papers 204
- B. Advertisements 216
- C. Personal Correspondence 222
- D. "Letter on Militant Hysteria" 228
- Bibliography 240
