The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
Cambridge University Press, 12/5/2013
EAN 9781107646193, ISBN10: 1107646197
Paperback, 802 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm
Language: English
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed alongside forms of writing which have traditionally received less attention, such as the essay, nature-writing, life-writing, journalism, and comics, and also writing in which the conventional separation between genres has broken down, such as the poetic novel. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, the volume includes a separate, substantial section discussing major genres in French, as well as a detailed chronology of historical and literary/cultural events, and an extensive bibliography covering criticism in English and French.
Chronology
Introduction Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller
Part I. Old and New World, La Nouvelle-France, the Canadas, Dominion of Canada
1. Native societies and French colonization Barbara Belyea
2. Reports from La Nouvelle-France
the Jesuit Relations, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Elisabeth Bégon E. D. Blodgett
3. Migrations, multiple allegiances and satirical traditions
from Frances Brooke to Thomas Chandler Haliburton Marta Dvořák
4. Writing in the Northwest
narratives, journals, letters, 1700–1870 Bruce Greenfield
5. Literature of settlement Carole Gerson
6. History in English and French, 1832–98 E. D. Blodgett
Part II. The Post-Confederation Period
7. Post-Confederation poetry D. M. R. Bentley
8. Writing by Victorian naturalists Christoph Irmscher
9. Short fiction Gerald Lynch
10. Bestselling authors, magazines and the international market Michael Peterman
11. Textual and social experiment in women's genres Janice Fiamengo
12. Canada and the Great War Susan Fisher
Part III. Models of Modernity, post-World War I
13. Staging personalities in modernism and realism Irene Gammel
14. E. J. Pratt and the McGill poets Adrian Fowler
15. The forties and fifties
signs of cultural change Coral Ann Howells
16. The Centennial Eva-Marie Kröller
17. Forms of non-fiction
Innis, McLuhan, Frye and Grant David Staines
Part IV. Aesthetic Experiments, 1960 and After
18. Quartet
Atwood, Gallant, Munro, Shields Robert Thacker
19. The short story W. H. New
20. Canadian drama
performing communities Anne Nothof
21. Poetry Kevin McNeilly
22. Poetry, drama and the postmodern novel Ian Rae
23. Comic art and bande dessinée
from the funnies to graphic novels Jean-Paul Gabilliet
24. 'Ghost stories'
fictions of history and myth Teresa Gibert
25. Indigenous writing
poetry and prose Lally Grauer and Armand Ruffo
26. Contemporary aboriginal theater Helen Gilbert
27. Transcultural life-writing Alfred Hornung
28. Multiculturalism and globalization Neil ten Kortenaar
Part V. Writing in French
29. Poetry Robert Yergeau
30. Drama Jane Moss
31. Fiction Réjean Beaudoin and André Lamontagne.