{"product_id":"downtown-canada-writing-canadian-cities-hardback-9780802087201","title":"Downtown Canada; Writing Canadian Cities (Hardback) 9780802087201","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDowntown Canada\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting Canadian Cities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJustin D. Edwards (Edited by), Douglas Ivison (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802087201\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vast majority of Canadians live in cities, yet for the most part, discussions of Canadian literature have failed to actively engage with the country's urban experience. Canada's prevalent myths continue to be about nordicity and the wilderness, and, stereotypically at least, its literature is often perceived as being about small towns, rural areas, and 'roughing it in the bush.' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDowntown Canada\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities - including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Halifax - and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature. They examine how characters are affected by the urban experience in works by a group of authors as diverse as the country itself: Hugh MacLennan, Jovette Marchessault, Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke, and Gerald Lynch, to name just a few. Editors Justin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison have brought together an esteemed group of international Canadian literary scholars, and together they have created a book that is timely and unique, questioning conventional assumptions about Canadian literature, and Canadian culture more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas Ivison and Justin D. Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'An Ordered Absence: Defeated Topologies in Canadian Literature'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Cavell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrient Dreams: Urbanity and the Post-Confederation Literacy Culture of Ottawa\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteven Artelle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Historicity: Halifax, Region and Empire in Barometer rising and the Nymph and the Lamp\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher J. Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLa ville en vol \/ City in Flight: Tracing Lesbian E-Motion through Jovette Marchessault's Comme un enfant de la terre\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Godard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes Towards a Resident Reading (and teaching) of Vancouver Writing\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Dickinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLost in the City: The Montreal Novels of Regine Robin and Robert Majzels\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDominic Beneventi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInside-Outside the Glass City: Toronto, the Canadian Immigrant City\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBatia Boe Stolar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivided Cities, Divided Selves: Portraits of the artist as Ambivalent Urban Hipster\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Salem-Wiseman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRewriting White Flight: Suburbia in Gerald Lynch's Troutstream and Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the Dark\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Milton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDueling and Dwelling in Toronto and London: Transnational Urbanism in Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Clement Ball\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJustin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545899790616,"sku":"9780802087201","price":45.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/downtown-canada-writing-canadian-cities-hardback-9780802087201","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}