John   Richardson,James Reaney
Set in the 1760s at the time of Pontiacâ€™s Indian alliance against the British, ,Wacousta, combines elements of revenge tragedy and gothic romance in reconstructing a violent episode in Canadian frontier history. In Major John Richardsonâ€™s vivid depiction, Pontiacâ€™s campaign against Fort Detroit is masterminded by the mysterious Wacousta, a Byronic anti-hero whose thirst for vengeance against the fortress commander borders on madness. Turning upon binary oppositions â€“ garrison against wilderness, restraint against passion, mercy against justice â€“ this suspenseful novel creates a world of deception and terror in which motive is ambiguous and the boundary between order and anarchy unclear.
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Wacousta; or, A Tale of the Canadas