Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

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Book & Publishing History:
Journal & Newspaper Publishing

Forum: Canadian Life and Letters, 1920–70: Selections from the Canadian Forum
Granatstein, J.L., and Peter Stevens, editors
PR9194.9 .F67
Stacks
Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination. Highlights from the David McKnight Canadian Little Magazine and Small Press Collection
McKnight, David

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.

Z1369 .U55 2018
Stacks
The Little Magazine in Canada, 1925–80: Its Role in the Development of Modernism and Post-Modernism in Canadian Poetry
Norris, Ken

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.

PR9190.5 .N67 1984
Stacks
Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916–1956
Irvine, Dean

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.

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PN4914 .L62 I79 2008
Stacks

“Canadian Nationalism and the Plight of Canadian Magazines in the 1920s”
Vipond, Mary

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.

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Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925–1960
Hammill, Faye, and Michelle Smith

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.

HT690 .C22 H34 2015
Stacks
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, “Special Section on the Future of University Press in Canada”
Bradley-St-Cyr, Ruth, et al., eds.

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.

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Canada since 1960: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Gonick, Cy, editor

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.

F1034.2 .C298 2016
Stacks
Roughing It in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties
Korinek, Valerie J.

 

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PN4914 .W6 K67 2000
Stacks

The “Alternative” Press in Canada: A Checklist of Underground, Revolutionary, Radical and Other Alternative Serials from 1960
Woodsworth, Anne

A directory of underground periodicals published in Canada up to 1960. The 413 titles are organized by geographic region and subject.

Z6954 .C2 W66
Reference
A History of Journalism in Canada
Kesterton, W.H.

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.

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PN4904 .K4 1970
Canadiana

From Politics to Profit: The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890–1920
Sotiron, Minko

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.

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PN4908 .S63 1997
Stacks

Making National News: a History of Canadian Press
Allan, Gene

 

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PN4908 .A45 2013
Stacks

Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism
Masters, Philinda

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.

PN4914 .W58 I58 2019

reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc

Last updated: January 31, 2024