Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Book & Publishing History
Journal & Newspaper Publishing
Forum: Canadian Life and Letters, 1920–70: Selections from
the Canadian Forum
PR 9194.9 .F67
Stacks
Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination. Highlights from the
David McKnight Canadian Little Magazine and Small Press Collection
An exhibition catalogue featuring over one hundred highlights of
a large and extraordinary collection of Canadian little magazines and Canadian small press and
micro-press imprints assembled by David McKnight, a librarian and collector who donated the
collection to the University of Alberta Libraries in 2012. It now forms part of the Bruce
Peel Special Collections.
Z 1369 .U55
2018
Stacks
The Little Magazine in Canada, 1925–80: Its Role in the
Development of Modernism and Post-Modernism in Canadian Poetry
Analyzes the emergence of small-press publications in Canada
(such as Alphabet, Tish, and Delta) which had their beginnings in
the American modernist movement. Also includes a bibliography of Canadian little magazines and
other titles related to the subject.
PR 9190.5 .N67
1984
Stacks
Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada,
1916–1956
A critical assessment that shows the major roles played by women
in disseminating modernisms through a series of little and not-so-little magazines. Dorothy
Livesay was highly influential in the left-wing Masses; Eleanor Godfrey edited
The Canadian Forum; Livesay and Floris McLaren helped to found Contemporary Verse and P.K. Page, Kit Shaw, and Peggy Anderson were primarily responsible for publishing Preview.
“Canadian Nationalism and the Plight of Canadian Magazines in
the 1920s”
Studies the impact of the American periodical industry on
Canadian magazine publishing. In the 1920s, due to the advances in printing technology,
business practices, improvements in living standards, and increases in the attainment of formal
education, Canadians devoted more time to reading Ladies’ Home Journal,
Saturday Evening Post, and other periodicals imported from the United States.
Vipond analyzes the efforts of the Magazine Publishers’
Association of Canada (MPAC) and other groups in curtailing the competition between Canadian
and American periodical publishers for Canadian readership.
Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian Periodicals
in English and French, 1925–1960
Examines the connection between the promotion of travel industry
in Canadian commercial magazines (among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La
Revue Moderne) and its cultural association with social mobility.
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, “Special Section on
the Future of University Press in Canada”
An issue devoted to the current scholarly publishing landscape
in Canada, including articles on open access and its impact on academic libraries, the
development and changes of the Wilfred Laurier and Concordia University Presses, copyright,
academic publishing in Indigenous studies, and other topics.
Canada since 1960: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics,
Economics and Culture
Canadian Dimension is a left-leaning magazine first
published in Winnipeg in 1963 that includes analysis of Canadian economic, social, cultural,
artistic and political issues. Hundreds of Canada’s leading figures of the left have
contributed to its pages over the years, writing about every major topic in Canadian public
life.
This book offers an account of the most important developments
in Canadian history from the sixties until today, as seen and interpreted by scholars and
writers on the pages of Dimension.
Each chapter reviews a major theme, such as Canada’s
relationship to the United States, the development of our health care system, the dynamics of
Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations and the role of Canadian cultural work in shaping Canadian
society.
F 1034.2 .C298
2016
Stacks
Roughing It in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine
in the Fifties and Sixties
The “Alternative” Press in Canada: A Checklist of
Underground, Revolutionary, Radical and Other Alternative Serials from 1960
A directory of underground periodicals published in
Canada up to 1960. The 413 titles are organized by geographic region and subject.
Z 6954 .C2 W66
Reference
A History of Journalism in Canada
Analyzes the history of newspaper publishing and journalistic
production between 1752 (the publication of the Halifax Gazzette, the first newspaper
in Canada) and the mid-1960s. Details individual histories of the major Canadian English and
French newspapers: The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Le Presse, and the
Vancouver Province.
From Politics to Profit: The Commercialization of Canadian Daily
Newspapers, 1890–1920
Examines the role of Canada’s first mass communication
medium in shaping Canadian politics and national consciousness and how their publishing model
developed into a profit-driven industry.
Making National News: a History of Canadian Press
Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism
Broadside: A Feminist Review was a feminist newspaper
which was published between 1979 and 1989.
Masters analyzes the influence of the newspapers on the lives of
its journalists, editors, publishers, and readers.
reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI