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Cahiers-Papers 55-2 2017 Papers Fall of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 2017 Cahiers Automne de la Société bibliographique du Canada 55/2 Bibliographical La Société Society bibliographique of Canada du Canada Publications Committee / Comité chargé des publications Chair GEOFFREY LITTLE Concordia University Editor Papers/Cahiers RUTH BRADLEY-ST-CYR University of Ottawa Associate Editor Papers/Cahiers JANET FRISKNEY York University Directeur adjoint Papers/Cahiers NICHOLAS GIGUÈRE Université de Sherbrooke Review Editor (English) Papers/Cahiers KRISTINE SMITKA University of Alberta Responsable de la chronique de revue de livres de langue française Papers/ Cahiers STÉPHANIE BERNIER Université de Sherbrooke Web Administrator SARAH SEVERSON McGill University Editor Bulletin JEAN-PHILIPPE MONGEAU University of Toronto Révision et traduction NICHOLAS GIGUÈRE Université de Sherbrooke Editorial Assistant Papers/Cahiers ELIZABETH ROSS Proofreader Papers/Cahiers LAURA CAMERON Editorial Board / Comité de rédaction CLAIRE BATTERSHILL Simon Fraser University FIONA BLACK Dalhousie University CECILY DEVEREUX University of Alberta ALAN GALEY University of Toronto CAROLE GERSON Simon Fraser University MARIE KOREY Toronto, Ontario ISABELLE ROBITAILLE Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec 2017 Papers of the Fall Bibliographical Society of Canada 2017 Cahiers de la Automne Société bibliographique du Canada Volume 55, #2 The Bibliographical Society of Canada La Société bibliographique du Canada Toronto, Canada 2017 ∞ Printed on acid-free paper. Imprimé sur papier sans acide. ISSN 0067-6896 Copyright © 2017 The Bibliographical Society of Canada http://www.bas-sbc.ca Typeset by COMPOMAGNY in AGaramond type. Printed by Marquis Printing Inc. Composé par COMPOMAGNY avec le caractère AGaramond. Imprimé par Marquis imprimeur inc. Special Issue Canada 150. Bound by Three Oceans: Reading, Writing, Printing and Publishing in Canada since Confederation Numéro spécial Can ada 150. Un pays relié d’un océan à l’autre : lire, écrire, imprimer & publier au Canada depuis 1867 Guest Editors / ruth-elle n st. onge, janet friskney, Rédactrices and/et myra tawfik Table of Contents / Table des matières Canada 150. Bound by Three Oceans: Reading, Writing, Printing and Publishing in Canada since Confederation / Canada 150. Un pays relié d’un océan à l’autre : lire, écrire, imprimer & publier au Canada depuis 1867 Guest Editors / Rédactrices ruth-ellen st. onge, janet friskney, and/et myra tawfik Introduction: Canada 150. Bound by Three Oceans: Reading, Writing, Printing and Publishing in Canada since Confederation 193 ruth-ellen st. onge, janet friskney, and myra tawfik Introduction: Cana da 150. Un pays relié d’un océan à l’autre : lire, écrire, imprimer & publier au Canada depuis 1867 199 ruth-ellen st. onge, janet friskney, et myra tawfik Marie Tremaine Medal 207 The Struggle behind “Struggle and Story”: A Canada 150 Exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 221 pearce j. carefoote The Geopolitics of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Copyright, as seen by some British Authors 245 meera nair Tried, Tested, but not Proved: The Home Cook Book and the Development of a Canadian Culinary Identity 271 melissa mcafee and ashley shifflett mcbrayne Un nationalisme tourné vers l’Amérique et les colonies : l’exportation du « Roman canadien » des Éditions Édouard Garand 309 marie-hélène constant et caroline loranger La Revue moderne, creuset de la littérature en régime médiatique dans les années 1950 au Québec 335 adrien rannaud 190 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 55/2 Books in Review / Comptes rendus kristine smitka and/et stéphanie bernier Manon Auger, Les journaux intimes et personnels au Québec. Poétique d’un genre littéraire incertain (Adrien Rannaud) 359 Thierry Groensteen, La bande dessinée au tournant (Philippe Rioux) 361 David Martens, Jean-Pierre Montier, Anne Reverseau, dir., L’Écrivain vu par la photographie : formes, usages, enjeux (Laureline Meizel) 364 Dictionnaire des intellectuel.les au Québec, sous la direction d’Yvan Lamonde, de Marie-Andrée Bergeron, de Michel Lacroix et de Jonathan Livernois (Pierre Hébert) 367 Antoine Compagnon, Les Chiffonniers de Paris (Valérie Stiénon) 370 Sophie Dubois, Refus global. Histoire d’une réception partielle (Édith-Anne Pageot) 374 Carl Dair, Epistles to the Torontonians: With Articles from the Canadian Printer & Publisher (John Shoesmith) 377 Gayle Garlock, Canadian Binders’ Tickets and Booksellers’ Labels (Thomas E. Kinsella) 380 Elizabeth Groeneveld, Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age (Marcelle Kosman) 383 Sandra Alston and C.M. Blackstock, Eds., “Another World”: William Ord Mackenzie’s Sojourn in Canada, 1839–43 (Michael Peterman) 387 Elizabeth Popham and David G. Pitt, Eds., E.J. Pratt: Letters (Sandra Campbell) 390 Renate Vervoort, Brueghel’s Witches: Witchcraft Images in the Low Countries between 1450 and 1700 (Andrew Gow) 393 Table of Contents / Table des matières 191 Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada’s Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational (Kristine Smitka) 397 Matthew Rubery, The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Jillian Richardson) 399 Means and Purposes: A Suggestion to Our Members and Friends 403 ’Qui veut la fin veut les moyens’ 404 Information for Authors 405 Information à l’intention de nos collaborateurs 406 LGBTQ+ print in Canada: Overviews and perspectives 407 L’imprimé LGBTQ+ au Canada et ailleurs : bilans et perspectives 408 Introduction: Canada 150. Bound by Three Oceans: Reading, Writing, Printing and Publishing in Canada since Confederation Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Janet Friskney, and Myra Tawfik This special issue of the Papers represents a coming together of the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture (CASBC) and The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) in recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial of 2017. The co-editors of this issue, as well as the two aforementioned societies, gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the aid the agency provided to this special issue, and to offsetting the costs that were associated with the special joint day of the two societies, “Canada 150: Bound by Three Oceans: Reading, Writing, Printing and Publishing in Canada since Confederation,” held 30 May 2017 at Ryerson University. When CASBC and BSC began planning for their 2017 annual conferences in the late spring and early summer of 2016, one immediate question for both societies was whether to address the sesquicentennial in their programming. Indeed, they were encouraged to think in this direction since both societies were planning to meet as part of the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the broad conference theme for the year was “The Next 150: Far and Wide,” containing an obvious invocation of Canada’s 150th anniversary as well as a key phrase from the national anthem. Given that the two societies had an established history of co-sponsored panels at Congress, the idea of a full day of co-programming quickly emerged. Discussion turned to holding a day-long scholarly exchange designed to highlight scholarship offering fresh insights into aspects of Canadian bibliography, print culture, and book history that have occurred within Canada’s borders since 1867. The call for papers posed the following questions: (1) How has Canada’s unique history — informed by two official languages, the forces of colonialism, imperialism, and the looming presence of our neighbours to the south — shaped domestic print production and distribution from 1867 to the present day, or, in turn, been shaped by it? (2) How have printers, publishers, literary institutions, authors, and readers 194 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 55/2 emerged within, influenced, and reacted to the Canadian context since 1867? What challenges did they face as they created, facilitated, nurtured, and responded to written works authored and/or published in Canada? What challenges do they continue to face? And, (3) What histories of print and of the book — reflecting the multiplicity of ethnic, religious, racial, linguistic, regional, and cultural communities of Canada — are yet to be revealed, studied, or celebrated? In order to give consideration to the future as well as the past at this special Canada 150 joint day, the co-organizers also included a special bilingual “publishers’ panel” as part of the proceedings. Comprised of members of the present-day book publishing trade in Canada, the panel facilitated an exchange with and among practitioners over the present circumstances and future directions of the Canadian book publishing industry. Given the title “The Lovely Treachery of Canadian Book Publishing: Current Circumstances, Future Directions,” the panel included the following individuals from the Canadian publishing industry: Peggy Burns from the Montreal- based comics and graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly; Kirk Howard from the trade publisher Dundurn Press; Marc Leslie Lefebvre from the self-publishing platform Kobo Writing Life; Geoffrey Little from the newly established and scholarly University of Concordia Press; Lisa Quinn from the recently restructured Wilfrid Laurier University Press; and Rodney Saint-Éloi from the independent literary publisher Mémoire d’encrier. The publishers reflected on how they are influenced by models from the past, and how they viewed themselves in the context of the
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