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Categorized as the first attempt by a Canadian-born author at historical fiction, Wacousta, by John Richardson, is a Gothic story about Pontiac's War. The author described the 1763 uprising which was led by Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa Indians, at Fort Detroit. In the author's evocative depiction, Pontiac's campaign against Fort Detroit is planned by the mystifying Wacousta, a Byronic anti-hero whose desire for revenge against the fortress commander results in madness. Its themes include prophecy and opposites, such as manliness vs. effeminacy, wilderness/wildness vs. civilization, sensibility vs. compassion, and the natural vs. the supernatural. This suspenseful novel creates a world of illusion and panic in which justification is vague and the boundary between hierarchy and anarchy undefined. Despite its stressed sentimentalism, the novel has been treated as a seminal work in the development of a Canadian literary sensibility. The work is also often claimed as the first Canadian novel.
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Hardscrabble is an adventurous historical fiction about the Indian attack on Fort Dearborn in 1812. It was a battle between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that lasted about 15 minutes and resulted in a victory for the Native Americans. The story is full of amusing characters and descriptions that excellently portray the tensions of the battle.
Matilda Montgomerie by Major Richardson is about a small town named Malden where people retreat when they want an escape from everyday life. Excerpt: "At his side, hanging on his arm and habited in naval uniform, appeared one who, from his familiarity of address with the General, not less than by certain appropriate badges of distinction, might be known as the commander of the little fleet then lying in the harbor. Shorter in person than his companion, his frame made up in activity what it wanted in height, and there was that easy freedom in his movements which so usually distinguishes the carriage of the sailor, and which now offered a remarkable contrast to that rigidity we have stated to have attached, albeit unaffectedly, to the military commander."
Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.