The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature

From Aboriginal writing to Atwood - this volume is a complete multi-authored history of Canadian writing in English and French.

Coral Ann Howells (Edited by), Eva-Marie Kröller (Edited by)

9781107646193, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 December 2013

802 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm, 1.16 kg

'The new Cambridge History of Canadian Literature is an impressive example of revisionism in literary history. It strikes a balance between revising the canon by including texts so far overlooked, rereading and reconfiguring canonical texts, and assessing the literary development of recent decades.' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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 Dvo?ák
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.

Subject Areas: History [HB], Literary studies: general [DSB]