A History of Canadian Fiction

The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day.

David Staines (Author)

9781108406468, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 August 2022

322 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.436 kg

'At long last Staines has given readers a credible and stolid text that takes them through Canadian fiction … I'm indebted to Staines and I think a great many other students and scholars of - dare I say 'our'? - literature will be, too.' Shane Neilson, Canadian Literature - A Quarterly of Criticism and Review

A History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Thomas King, concluding with young authors of today whose major successes reflect their indebtedness to their Canadian forbearers.

Introduction
1. The beginnings
2. From romance towards realism
3. Emerging into realism
4. The foundational fifties
5. The second feminist wave
6. The flourishing of the wests
7. The second century
8. Indigenous voices
9. Naturalized Canadian writers
10. The twenty-first century
Afterword
Endnotes
Acknowledgements.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]