The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature

by Howells, Coral Ann

• ISBN13: 9780521868761
• ISBN10: 0521868769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Chronology

Introduction Coral

Old and New World, La Nouvelle-France, the Canadas, Dominion of Canada

Native societies and French colonization

Reports from La Nouvelle-France: the Jesuit Relations, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Elisabeth

Migrations, multiple allegiances and satirical traditions: from Frances Brooke to Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Writing in the Northwest: narratives, journals, letters, 1700-1870

Literature of settlement

History in English and French, 1832-98

The Post-Confederation Period

Post-Confederation poetry

Writing by Victorian naturalists

Post-Confederation short fiction

Bestselling authors, magazines and the international market

Textual and social experiment in women's genres

Canada and the great war

Models of Modernity, post-World War I

Staging personalities in modernism and realism

E. J. Pratt and the McGill poets

The forties and fifties: signs of cultural change Coral

The Centennial

Forms of non-fiction: Innis, McLuhan, Frye and Grant

Aesthetic Experiments, 1960 and After

Quartet: Atwood, Munro, Shields, Gallant

The short story

Canadian drama in English: performing communities

English-Canadian poetry

Poetry, drama and the postmodern novel

Comic art and bande dessin_e: from the funnies to graphic novels

'Ghost stories': fictions of history and myth

Indigenous writing: poetry and prose

Contemporary aboriginal theatre

Transcultural life-writing

Multiculturalism and globalisation

Writing in French

Poetry

Drama

Fiction

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