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Articles

Volume 01, Number 1 (1976)

European Immigrants in the Fiction of Robert Stead

  • K. P. Stich
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1976-01-01

Abstract

Popular Western novelist Robert Stead, despite his reputation as a social realist, has, for the most part, avoided the portrayal of immigrant characters. Two of his novels, The Homesteaders and Neighbours, do however include some treatment of immigrants, both those from Europe and from Eastern Canada. Stead clearly exposes his British sympathies, implying that existing cultural differences will disappear as a result of the new life in the West, which, in his view, emphasizes the conflict between the individualistic and aristocratic values of frontier life and the dangers of materialism.