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Writing The Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism (review)

first-generation immigrant’s desire to replicate the home country’s culture, while the second-generation contended with the difficulties, ambivalences, and contradictions arising from growing up amidst parental efforts to plant the home country’s culture in a distant space and call that home. Peterman’s versions of Moodie and Traill seem to demand that their experience, and presumably their writings, be seen to represent both generations’ experience. e result for early Canadian literary studies of Peterman’s extensive and committed contributions is that Moodie and Traill somehow remain exceptions to rather than part of the settler history of Upper Canada. Unless the author himself is poised to offer comprehensive critical treatments of both writers’ works, this quirk is one that future scholarship will wish to address if not correct. Meanwhile, if not sufficiently probing, this book’s informational and visual dimensions will woo many readers and perhaps open Canadian literary history to a readership beyond the academy.