Publisher's Synopsis
A translation and revision of Jean Rivard, 'ou l'Art de reTussir: IdTologies et utopie dans l'oeuvre d'Antoine GTrin-Lajoie published by the Laval University Press, Quebec, in 1991). Examines in the 1862/64 French Canadian novel the workings of an apparently exogenous ideology, and tests on it a number of critical and interpretive approaches, thus