Bryan N. S. Gooch


Works by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book Reviews

Book Reviews by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Arctic Exploration
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in South Asian Diaspora. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 190 (Autumn 2006): 131-133.
  • The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant by Peter Steele
Travels and Social Impact
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in The Literature of Atlantic Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 189 (Summer 2006): 138-139.
  • James McGill of Montreal: Citizen of the Atlantic World by John Irwin Cooper and James Woycke (Editor)
  • Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen by Jean Barman
From Routes to Rails
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 97-98.
  • A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson’s Bay Company Wanderer by Barbara Belyea (Editor)
  • McCulloch's Wonder: The Story of the Kettle Valley Railway. by Barrie Sanford
  • The Wilderness Profound: Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia by Richard Somerset Mackie
Maritime Narratives
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 94-95.
  • Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire by Josiah Blackmore
  • The Sea Voyage Narrative by Robert Foulke
More than Nostalgia
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 133-134.
  • Wild Liard Waters: Canoeing Canada's Historic Liard River by Ferdi Wenger
  • Rails and Rooms: A Timeless Canadian Journey by Dave Preston
  • Tales from Hidden Basin by Dick Hammond
Wilderness Colony
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 91-92.
  • Old Square-Toes and His Lady: The Life of James and Amelia Douglas by John Coldwell Adams
  • Way Out West: On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor by Michael Shaw Bond
Explorations Commercial & Personal
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 132-133.
  • A Shimmer on the Horizon by Philip Teece
  • This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44 by Jean Murray Cole (Editor)
Small-Town Innocence
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in francophone / anglophone. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 176-177.
  • Great Expectations by Grant C. Robinson
  • Not in my Backyard by Bryan R. Meadows
Views of the Frontier
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in francophone / anglophone. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 164-165.
  • The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 by Morag Maclachlan (Editor)
  • The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community by Elizabeth Furniss
Discovery as Destination
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 209-211.
  • The Oatmeal Ark: Across Canada by Water by Rory MacLean
  • Ultimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners by William Gilkerson
  • Water Studies [:] New Voices in maritime Fiction by Ian Colford (Editor)
Magic in Narrative
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Canadian Literature 169 (Summer 2001): 150-152.
  • An Evening with W.O. Mitchell by Barbara Mitchell (Editor) and Ormond Mitchell (Editor)
  • Magic Lies: The Art of W.O. Mitchell by Sheila Latham (Editor) and David Latham (Editor)
To the New World
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Mostly Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 168 (Spring 2001): 145-146.
  • The desire of every living thing: A search for home by Don N. S. Gillmor
  • Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly. by Richard White
In Touch with the Land
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in First Nations Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 167 (Winter 2000): 137-139.
  • Tom Thomson's Shack by Harold Rhenisch
  • Summer Gone by David Macfarlane
  • The Clouded Leopard: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis
Cartography to Colony
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in First Nations Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 167 (Winter 2000): 116-117.
  • Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island by Daniel W. Clayton
Reflections of the Rock
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Canadian Literature 165 (Summer 2000): 154-155.
  • Submariner's moon by Don McNeill
  • Rare Birds by Edward Riche
  • Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh
By River and by Rail
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Gay and Lesbian Writing in Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 173-175.
  • Canada's Forgotten Highway by Ralph Hunter Brine
  • A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia by Frank Leonard
Past and Present
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Canadian Literature 157 (Summer 1998): 168-170.
  • The Box Social and Other Stories by James Reaney
  • Dead Men's Watches by Hugh Hood
Performer and Audience
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Canadian Literature 157 (Summer 1998): 149-151.
  • The Goldberg Variation by Nancy Huston
  • Starting from Porcupine by William Aide
Politics and Peace
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 160-162.
  • The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst by Armin Wiebe
  • Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World by Farley Mowat
Trains and Tradition
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Women and War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 151 (Winter 1996): 150-152.
  • Train Country: An Illustrated History of Canadian National Railways by Donald MacKay and Lorne Perry
  • Head Cook At Weddings and Funerals and Other Stories of Doukhobor Life by Vi Plotnikoff
Libraries & Literacy
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Urquhart and Munro. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 150 (Autumn 1996): 145-147.
  • Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930 by Lorne Bruce
  • Harmonious Perfection: The Development of English Studies in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Canadian Colleges by Henry Hubert
Native Heritage
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Postcolonial Identities. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 149 (Summer 1996): 132-134.
  • Indian Artists at Work by Ulli Steltzer
  • Haida Monumental Art [:] Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands by George F. MacDonald, Bill Reid and Richard J. Huyda
Our Social Fabric
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Community Values. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 148 (Spring 1996): 146-148.
  • A Bridge Built Halfway: A History of Memorial University College by Malcolm MacLeod
  • The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada by N. E. S. Griffiths
Social Histories
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Native, Individual, State. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 144 (Spring 1995): 179-181.
  • Canadian Family History: Selected Readings by Bettina Bradbury (Editor)
  • History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867, Vol. 1 by Margaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel and Cornelius Jaenen
  • History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present, Vol. 2 by Alvin Finkel, Margaret Conrad and Veronica Strong-Boag
Significant
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Past, Present, Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 120-121.
  • Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 by Ken S. Coates
  • Colonial Leviathons: State Formation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Canada by Allan Greer (Editor) and Ian Radforth (Editor)
Family History
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 168-169.
  • The Letters of James and Ellen Robb by James Robb, Ellen Robb and Alfred G. Bailey (Editor)
  • The Danger Tree: Memory, War, and the Search for a Family's Past by David Macfarlane
Cosmologies
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 148-149.
  • Meaning and Being in Myth by Norman Austin
  • The Flutes of Dionysus [:] Daemonic Enthrallment in Literature by R. D. Stock
Production & Interpretation
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in South Asian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 132 (Spring 1992): 192-193.
  • Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre by George Taylor
  • Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare by Michael D. Bristol
  • Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature by Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Callaghan
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Forms of the Modern. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 126 (Autumn 1990): 148-149.
  • The Man with the Coat by Morley Callaghan
  • A Wild Old Man on the Road by Morley Callaghan
Integrality
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Translation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 117 (Summer 1988): 154-155.
  • One Night At The Indigo Hotel by Robert Allen
  • Ashbourn by John Reibetanz
  • The Long March: Notes on the Way 1981-1984 by Darko Suvin
Pastoral
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Italian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 106 (Autumn 1985): 157-160.
  • Literature and the Pastoral by Andrew V. Ettin
  • All the Way Home by Gabrielle Poulin (Author) and Jane Pentland (Translator)
Sound & Voice
By Bryan N. S. Gooch
Published in Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 94 (Autumn 1982): 131-133.
  • Epic Fiction: The Art of Rudy Wiebe by W. J. Keith