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Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood

Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood

Czarnowus, Anna
Toswell, M. J.
Klis-Brodowska, Agnieszka

Hardcover

Series: Medievalism, Book 17

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1843845474
ISBN13: 9781843845478
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Feb 21 2020
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The essays in this volume consider what is original and distinctive about the manifestation of medievalism in Canadan literature and its origins and its subsequent growth and development: from the first novel published in Canada written by a Canadian-born author, Julia Beckwith Hart's St Ursula's Convent (1824), to the recent work of the best-selling novelist Patrick DeWitt (Undermajordomo Minor, published in 2015). Topics addressed include the strong strain of medievalist fantasy itself in the work of the young-adult author Kit Pearson, and the longer novels of Charles de Lint, Steven Erikson, and Guy Gavriel Kay; the medievalist inclinations of Archibald Lampman and W.W. Campbell, well-known nineteenth-century Canadian poets; and the often-studied Wacousta by John Richardson, first published in 1832. Chapters also cover early Canadian periodicals' engagement with orientalist medievalism; and works by twentieth-century writers such as the irrepressible Earle Birney, the witty and intellectual Robertson Davies, and the fascinating and learned Margaret Atwood.

M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario, ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Contributors: D.M.R. Bentley, Agnieszka Klis-Brodowska, Anna Czarnowus, Brian Johnson, Laurel Ryan, David Watt, M.J. Toswell, Dominika Ruszkiewicz, Cory Rushton, Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, Ewa Drab, and Michael Fox.

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