University of Toronto Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Finding Nothing: The Vangardes, 1959-1975 by Gregory Betts
Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853-1948 by Eva-Marie Kröller
Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear by Marta Dvorák
The Reception of Northrop Frye by Robert D. Denham
Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada by Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu
Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada by Scott McLaren
Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing by Ruth Panofsky
The L. M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print by Benjamin Lefebvre
Sharing the Past: The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960 by J. A. Weingarten
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891-1917 by L. M. Montgomery and Benjamin Lefebvre
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 by L. M. Montgomery and Benjamin Lefebvre
You Can’t Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction by Ryan Porter
Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law by Cheryl Suzack
You Can't Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction by Ryan Porter
Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's Writing by Andrea Medovarski
Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 by Sarah Wylie Krotz
Tracing Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk by Fiona Polack
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy by B. W. Powe
Charles Mair: Literary Nationalist by Norman Shrive
The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties by John Borrows and Michael Coyle
Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gérard Bouchard
Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s by Cecilia Morgan
Asian Canadian Studies Reader by Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon
Recalling Recitation in the Americas: Borderless Curriculum, Performance Poetry, and Reading by Janet Neigh
The Collected Works of Northrop Frye Vol. 6 by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham
The Collected Works of Northrop Frye Vol. 5 by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham
Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education by Ajay Heble
Broadcasting Policy in Canada: Second Edition by Robert Armstrong
Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board by Stephen Boomer
E.J. Pratt: Letters by E. J. Pratt and Elizabeth Popham
Living with War: Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory by Robert Teigrob
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance by Amber Dean
Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature by Amelia DeFalco
Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home by Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber
Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic by Brenda Beckman-Long
Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism by John Borrows
Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship by Linda Morra
The L.M Montgomery Reader Volume Three: A Legacy in Review by Benjamin Lefebvre
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
Transforming Kafka: Translation Effects by Patrick O'Neill
Northrop Frye's Uncollected Prose by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham
Northrop Frye and American Fiction by Claude Le Fustec
Body of Vision: Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind by Michael Sinding
The Modern Girl: Feminism Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s by Jane Nicholas
The Culture of the Seven Years' War: Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Frans De Bruyn and Shaun Regan
Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real by Kathleen Gallagher
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture by Ruth Panofsky
Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama by Jenn Stephenson
Corporate Character : Representing Imperial Power in British India, 1786-1901 by Eddy Kent
Outerspeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation by Daniel Fischlin
Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel by Teresa Heffernan
The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public by Joel Deshaye
Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876 by Keith Smith
Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations by Gregory Betts
Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity by Lorraine York
Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteneth-Century Canada by Donald B. Smith
Necessity of Opposites: The Dialectical Thinking of Northrop Frye by Brian Russell Graham
Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies by Elena Lamberti
The Domestic Space Reader by Chiara Briganti and Kathy Mezei
Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy by Tiffany Potter and Joshua Trotter
Index to the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 30 by Jean O'Grady
Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures by Jody Mason
Keepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of Nation by Robert Lecker
Tecumseh: A Drama by Charles Mair
Selected Poetry and Critical Prose by Charles G. D. Roberts
The Sense of Power by Carl Berger
Bibliographie critique du roman canadien-français 1837-1900 by David M. Hayne and Marcel Tirol
A Slice of Canada by Watson Kirkconnell
Dominion and Agency by Eli MacLaren
Dreamland and Other Poems by Charles Mair
Interpretation of Narrative by Mario J. Waldes and Owen J. Miller
Stickhandling through the Margins by Michael Robidoux
National Performance by Erin Hurley
German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice by Augustinus P. Dierick
Secret Craft by Carman Cumming
Prizing Literature by Gillian Roberts
The Traffic in Babies by Karen Balcom
Critical Ecologies by Andrew Biro
Literary Images of Ontario by W. J. Keith
Joyce Wieland’s ‘The Far Shore' by Johanne Sloan
Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard
On the Case: Explorations in Social History by Franca Lacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson
University of Toronto Quarterly 66.4 (1997) by University of Toronto
Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow and Janine Marchessault
Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works by David Boyd and Imre Salusinszky
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton by Barbara Williams
Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 4, 1970-1988 by Henry Roper and Arthur Davis
Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables by Irene Gammel and Benjamin Lefebvre
David Adams Richards of the Miramichi: A Biographical Introduction by Tony Tremblay
Home Free by Kim Thúy
Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature by Northrop Frye and Glen Robert Gill
Literary Discourse: A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature by Jørgen Dines Johansen
A Darkness that Murmured: Essayson Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century by Frederick Asals and Paul G. Tiessen
The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycle by Gerald Lynch
Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing by Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman
Odysseys Homes: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke
Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996 by Laurie McNeill and Kathryn Carter
Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews
Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries by Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski
Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives by Jean O'Grady and Wang Ning
Marian Engel: Life in Letters by Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay
Citizenship in Transformation in Canada by Yvonne M. Hébert
Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. III by G. S. N. Luckyj
Words with Power by Michael Dolzani
The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 by Jean O'Grady and Eva Kushner
History of the Book in Canada: Volume Two by Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming and Fiona A. Black
History of the Book in Canada: Volume Three by Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada by Barbara Williams
Dickens on Education by John Manning
Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada by Candida Rifkind
Interviews with Northrop Frye: Vol. 24 of Collected Works of Nothrop Frye by Jean O'Grady
Northrop Frye's Fiction and Miscellaneous Writings: Vol. 25 of Collected Works of Nothrop Frye by Robert D. Denham and Michael Dolzani
Northrop Frye's Notebooks for "Anatomy of Criticism": Vol. 23 of Collected Works of Northrop Frye by Robert D. Denham
The Extended Mind by Robert K. Logan
Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada by Julia V. Emberley
Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949 by Elizabeth Driver
New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978 by Janet Friskney
"A Happy Holiday": English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930 by Cecilia Morgan
Who’s Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada, a Contemporary Directory by Dawn P. Williams
A Glorious and Terrible Life with You: Selected Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939 by Margaret Burgess
After Green Gables by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul G. Tiessen
Through Lover's Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
Theorizing Historical Consciousness by Peter Seixas
Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth by Glen Robert Gill
City Stages by Michael McKinnie
Loving in Verse by Stephen Guy-Bray
Dictionary of Canadian Biography by Réal Bélanger and Ramsay Cook
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York
Unpopular Culture: Transorming the European Comic Book in the 1990s by Bart Beaty
White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada by Daniel Coleman
Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction by Sherryl Vint
Milton and the Climates of Reading: Essays by Balachandra Rajan by Elizabeth Sauer and Balachandra Rajan
The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963 by Northrop Frye
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham
Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis by John Clement Ball
Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth by Linda Morra
'??Call Me Hank': A Sto?:lo? Man’s Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old by Henry Pennier, Keith Thor Carlson and Kristina Fagan
Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures by Zhang Longxi
Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism by Irena R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price
Notes from Exile by Émile Zola, Dorothy E. Speirs, Dorothy E. Speirs and Yannick Portebois
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature: Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19 by Northrop Frye and Alvin Lee
Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen by Jean Barman
Marian Engel by Kathleen Garay and Christl Verduyn
The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery by Irene Gammel
Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Que?be?cois Literature by Paul Perron
Northrop Frye on Canada: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Volume 12 by Jean O'Grady and David Staines
Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writing of Northrop Frye by Jeffery Donaldson and Alan Mendelson
E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities by Marcel O'Gorman
Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Romance by Northrop Frye and Michael Dolzani
The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver: Three Generations Amid Tradition, Modernity and Multiculturalism by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar
Modern Drama: Defining the Field by Ric Knowles, Joanne Tompkins and W.B. Worthen
Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 by Tamara Myers
'Pictures Bring Us Messages' /Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: : Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation by Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers and Kainai Nation
Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Richard A. Davies
The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther by Christine Wiesenthal
Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 3, 1960-1969 by Arthur Davis and Henry Roper
History of the Book in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1840 by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gilles Gallichan and Yvan Lamonde
The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement by Michael Strangelove
Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature by Joanne Saul
Chaucer's Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio by Susan Schibanoff
As For Sinclair Ross by David Stouck
Contemporary Antisemitism, Canada and the World by Derek J. Penslar, Michael Marrus and Janice Gross Stein
Worlds of Wonder: Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by Jean-François Leroux and Camille La Bossiere
Arresting Images—Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera by Aaron Doyle
Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing by Lorraine York
The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture by Albert Braz
Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography by David Stouck
Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy by Terry Copp
Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 2 (1951–1959) by Arthur Davis
Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts by Robert D. Denham
Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada by Jennifer Henderson
E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag
Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 2: Northrop Frye on Modern Culture by Jan Gorak
Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada by Terry Crowley
Uncommon Readers: Dennis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, George Steiner, and the Tradition of the Common Reader by Christopher J. Knight
Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada by Tom Warner
In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 by Gary Evans
The George Grant Reader by William Christian and Sheila Grant
Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996
Border Crossings: Thomas King?s Cultural Inversions by Priscilla L. Walton, Jennifer Andrews, Marlene Goldman and Arnold E. Davidson
The Field Naturalist: John Macoun, the Geological Survey and Natural Science by W. A. Waiser
Nostalgia and Sexual Difference: The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism by Janice Doane and Devon Hodges
The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology by Dorothy E. Smith
George Grant: Selected Letters by William Christian
George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity: Art, Philosophy, Politics, Religion and Education by Arthur Davis
Inventing the Loyalists by Norman Knowles
Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose of E.J. Pratt by Susan Gingell
Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century's End by David Staines
A Sociocritique of Translation: Theatre and Alterity in Quebec, 1968-1988 by Annie Brisset
Great Dames by Janice Dickin and Elspeth Cameron
The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy by Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock
Body Language in Literature by Barbara Korte
'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisonsand Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario by Peter Oliver
The Tightrope Walker. Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson by Joan Coldwell
The Fragrance of Sweet-grass: L. M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
The Borders of Nightmare: The Fiction of John Richardson by Michael Hurley
Complete Poems by A. M. Klein and Zailig Pollock
Canadian Canons: Essays in Literary Value by Robert Lecker