Styles of authorship in New France: Pierre Boucher, settler and Pierre-Esprit Radisson, explorer.

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | September 22, 1999| | Copyright

This essay is a comparative case-study of the careers of two authors of New France, of the ways in which they envisioned themselves as authors, and of how they exploited (or failed to exploit) the options available to them for publication. Both men represent an important aspect of the earliest phase of Canada's book history, since for reasons made clear below, though they wrote in or about the new land, their writings were first circulated (if that is the right word) abroad. The two, who had almost certainly been acquainted with each other in Trois-Rivieres, forma sharp contrast. ...

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