Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including book history.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
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A complete history of Canadian writing from its beginnings, including the literature of settlement and the history of Canadian publishing and the literary marketplace in the seconf half of the nineteenth century.

Starting in 1997, a team of historians, librarians, and literary scholars from across the country took up the task of writing a comprehensive book on a history of the book and print culture in Canada.

Detailed bibliographies listing primary and secondary sources on printed books and printing, illustration, type founders and designers, book trade and publishing, libraries and librarianship, periodicals, newspapers and journalism.

Chronicles the history of English-language publishing from World War II to the early twentieth century.

Reflecting cultural, political, and technological changes, this detailed exploration of Canadian book publishing displays trends of the industry from the last fifty years.

A memoir by a promient book editor who began his career in publishing at a summer job with Holt, Rinehart and Winston and which culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia. Marsh he was editor-in-chief of all three print editions (1985, 1988, 1999) and The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada. He also took the encyclopedia into the digital world with numerous CD-ROM versions and an online version that is still consulted worldwide.

A seminal article published in the Canadian Historical Review, exploring the importance and the effect of nineteenth-century journals in Canada, including the Literary Garland and The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Society, and Literature.

A comprehensive reference work on the English literary history of Canada in four volumes, which includes essays on the history of Canadian literary publishing by the bibliographer and librarian H.P. Gundy.

Six women writers from six different periods and how they portray Canadian women authors: Frances Brooke, Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Duncan; L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, and Carol Shields.

Recounts the emergence of the publishing and bookselling industries and the development of the Canadian copyright law.

Analyzes the founding, early history, membership, and the aims of the Canadian Authors’ Association (CAA). Vipond also evaluates the effectiveness of the organization in promoting Canadian literature nationwide and copyright protection for Canadian writers.

The first collection in Canada of literary analysis on First-Nations literatures written by First-Nations scholars. The book includes a critical essay by Greg Young-Ing about the marginalization of the First Nations’ publishing industry.

A collection of conversations with Richard Van Camp, Lee Maracle, Daniel Heath Justice, Marilyn Dumont, and others. They centre on the writers’ concerns, critiques, and craft, and how they navigate the challenge of storying their communities in politically charged terrain.

The topics explored in the interviews include discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation, and representation, as well as Indigenous publishing and literary studies.

PR9188.2 .I54 H36 2020
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