Canadian category: 447 books
William Wilfred Campbell
Selected Poetry and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).
Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar “Indian Summer” and “How One Winter Came in the Lake Region,” along...
by Kurt Korneski
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate...
In Translation
The Gabrielle Roy-Joyce Marshall Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's English translators. The two shared a deep and long-lasting friendship based on a shared interest in language and writing. In Translation offers a critical...
Archibald Lampman
Memory, Nature, Progress
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predisposition. His goal was not to transcend time, but to find redemptive meaning within it. Archibald Lampman: Memory,...
Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume...
Performing Autobiography
Contemporary Canadian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography...
Beyond Sambation
Selected Essays and Editorials 1928-1955 (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
The broad range of A.M. Klein’s interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials, and reviews – a selection that also displays the qualities that distinguished all his creative writing and the highly idiosyncratic nature of his style.
The writings...
Margaret Laurence
The Making of a Writer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2005
Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence's first...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
War marked L.M. Montgomery’s personal life and writing. As an eleven-year-old, she experienced the suspense of waiting months for news about her father, who fought during the North-West Resistance of 1885. During the First World War, she actively led women’s war efforts in her community, while suffering...
Saul and Selected Poems
including excerpts from Jephthah's Daughter and Jezebel: A Poem in Three Cantos
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Saul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless...
Angéline de Montbrun
A Psychological Romance of Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind...
Unarrested Archives
Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Sheila Watson (1909–1998), Jane Rule (1931–2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947– ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly...
The Cromaboo Mail Carrier
A Canadian Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
A Canadian love story about Robbie Smith, a 19-year-old mail carrier travelling the old gravel roadway (now Highway 124) between Cromaboo (Erin) and Gibbeline (Guelph). One day on his travels he sees Miss Mary Paxton, an unwed lady, 14 years his senior. He falls in love with her. And so begins our tale.
From Colonial to Modern
Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context.
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