“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Ambiguous Afterlife of the History of the Acadians” - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Canadian Review of American Studies Année : 2018

“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Ambiguous Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”

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Longfellow's Evangeline was hailed as a great and distinctively American work when it appeared in 1847, and the poem's use of North American history was a key element in its favourable reception. This use of history, however, is ambiguous and complex. The epic continues, first of all, in a long tradition of romanticized retellings of the heart-rending story of the Acadians. But the work also engages in a dual-level dialogue with both the mid-eighteenth-century history of the Acadians, who are pitied, without inciting indignation, and the contemporary history of mid-nineteenth-century America, whose expansionism it both implicitly celebrates and criticizes.

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hal-02114515 , version 1 (04-09-2024)

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Mark Niemeyer. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Ambiguous Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”. Canadian Review of American Studies, 2018, 48 (2), pp.121-145. ⟨10.3138/cras.2017.003⟩. ⟨hal-02114515⟩

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