Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres, and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely re-written to relect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of ic- tion, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writ- ing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergence of urban writing. Areas of research that have expanded since the irst edition include environmental concerns and questions of sexuality which are freshly explored across several different chapters. A substantial chapter on franco- phone writing is included. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, noted for her experiments in multiple literary genres, are given full consideration, as is the work of authors who have achieved major recognition, such as Alice Munro, recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. Eva-Marie Kröller edited the Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (irst edn., 2004) and, with Coral Ann Howells, the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (2009). She has published widely on travel writing and cultural semiotics, and won a Killam Research Prize as well as the Distin- guished Editor Award of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for her work as editor of the journal Canadian Literature, 1995–2003. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CANADIAN LITERATURE SECOND EDITION EDITED BY EVA-MARIE KRÖLLER University of British Columbia, Vancouver © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 4843/24, 2nd Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, Delhi - 110002, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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Courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University. page 110 2 “A Camp on the Boundary Line,” frontispiece to vol. II of John Keast Lord, The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia (1866). Author’s collection. Photograph: Tim Ford. 112 3 Agnes Fitzgibbon, Plate VI, facing p. 48, in Catharine Parr Traill, Canadian Wild Flowers (1868). Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature. 115 4 From Delos White Beadle, Canadian Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Gardener (1872). Author’s collection. Photograph: Tim Ford. 117 5 “E. E. T.” (Ernest E. Thompson [Seton]), Wood Ducks, from Thomas McIlwraith, Birds of Ontario, 2nd edn. (1894). Author’s collection. Photograph: Tim Ford. 120 6 Illustration by Alistair Anderson, from River of the Angry Moon by Mark Hume with Harvey Thommasen. Copyright C 1998 by Mark Hume. Published in Canada by Greystone Books, a division of Douglas and McIntyre. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. 125 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information MAPS 1 Canada page xlii 2 Tribal distributions in and near Canada at time of contact 27 x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS e. d. blodgett is University Professor Emeritus of Comparative Liter- ature at the University of Alberta and past poet laureate of Edmonton (2007–2009). He has published widely on comparative Canadian literature. He received the 1996 Governor General’s Award and the 1997 Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Apostrophes, a volume of poetry. A renga with Jacques Brault entitled Transiguration (1998) also received the Gov- ernor General’s Award. Publications include Five-Part Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada (2003) and Les Enfants des Jésuites ou le sacriice des vierges (2013). marta dvorák,ˇ born in Budapest and raised in Canada, was Professor of Canadian and Commonwealth Literatures at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Priv- ileging issues of global circulation via rhetoric and narratology, her most recent books include Tropes and Territories (with William H. New, 2007), Crosstalk (with Diana Brydon, 2012), and Translocated Modernisms (with Dean Irvine and Emily Ballantyne, 2016). She is currently writing a book on Mavis Gallant. janice fiamengo teaches in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include The Woman’s Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada (2008) and the edited volumes Other Selves: Ani- mals in the Canadian Literary Imagination (2007) and Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature (2014). coral ann howells, Professor Emerita at the University of Reading, is now Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She has published widely on contemporary Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (2006) and co-editor with Eva-Marie Kröller of the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (2009), she has also co-edited volume 12 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15962-4 — The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller Frontmatter More Information notes on contributors (2017) with Paul Sharrad and Gerry Turcotte. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. shelley hulan teaches in the Department of English Language and Lit- erature at the University of Waterloo. Her articles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian poetry and iction have appeared in journals such as Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, Essays on Cana- dian Writing, and the Journal of Canadian Studies. Her research includes the connections between rhetoric, memory, and history in the work of Confederation-era writers such as Sara Jeannette Duncan, Susan Frances Harrison,