Carole Gerson

January 29, 2015


Works by Carole Gerson

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Past and Present
By Carole Gerson
Published in Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 191-193.
  • Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood by M. J. Toswell (Editor) and Anna Czamowus (Editor)
Whose Canada?
By Carole Gerson
Published in South Asian Diaspora. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 190 (Autumn 2006): 173-175.
  • The Museum Called Canada by Charlotte Gray and Sara Angel
Historiography Literary Criticism Nineteenth Century Publishing
Whose Canada?
By Carole Gerson
Published in Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 181-182.
  • The Museum Called Canada by Sara Angel and Charlotte Gray
Culture First Nations History Quebec Women's Studies
Elusive Moodie
By Carole Gerson
Published in Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 165-167.
  • The Work of Words: The Writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie by John Thurston
Canadian Studies Native Studies Poetry
Pioneering Women
By Carole Gerson
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 166-168.
  • A Different Point of View: Sara Jeannette Duncan by Misao Dean
  • The Pioneer Woman: A Canadian Character Type by Elizabeth Thompson
Life Writing Literary Criticism
Texts & Subtexts
By Carole Gerson
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 165-166.
  • Taking Care of My Cold by Joan Buchanan and Katherine Helmer (Illustrator)
  • The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling and Jan Mogensen (Illustrator)
  • The Magic Paintbrush by Robin Muller
Twentieth Century Women's Literature
Beautiful Books
By Carole Gerson
Published in Discourse in Early Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 131 (Winter 1991): 204-205.
  • Canadian Childhoods by May Cutler (Editor)
  • Julian by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
  • Houses of Snow, Skin and Bones by Bonnie Shemie
Feminism Poetry Prairie Writing Women's Literature
Girls and Women
By Carole Gerson
Published in Discourse in Early Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 131 (Winter 1991): 183-186.
  • No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women, 1771-1938 by Margaret Conrad (Editor), Toni Laidlaw (Editor) and Donna Smyth (Editor)
  • Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life by Joan Givner
  • Antoinette de Mirecourt, or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing by Rosanna Leprohon and John C. Stockdale (Editor)
Anthologies Children's Literature
Two Plus Two
By Carole Gerson
Published in The Languages of Poetry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 129 (Summer 1991): 175-176.
  • Victor by Gilles Cop
  • La Grève des animaux by Catherine Dupont
  • Angel and the Polar Bear by Marie-Louise Gay
  • Kenji and the Cricket by Adele Wiseman
History Women's Studies
True Stories
By Carole Gerson and Daniel Gerson
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 124-126.
  • Mystery in the Frozen Lands by Martyn Godfrey
  • Little by Little: A Writer's Education by Jean Little
  • The Way Things Work: From Levels to Lasers, Cars to Computers — A Visual Guide to the World of Machines by David Macaulay
Children's Literature francophone
Empire & Bumble-Puppy
By Carole Gerson
Published in Italian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 106 (Autumn 1985): 104-105.
  • The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan (Author)
Biography
Speculations
By Carole Gerson
Published in Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 103 (Winter 1984): 78-80.
  • Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan by Marian Fowler (Author)
Sources & Resources
By Claude Potvin, Louise Warren, Madeleine Gaudreault-Labrecque and Carole Gerson
Published in Personal Experience & the Creative Writer. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 101 (Summer 1984): 127-128.
  • Le Canada français et sa littérature de jeunesse by Claude Potvin
  • Répertoire des ressources en littérature de jeunesse by Louise Warren
  • Le mystère du grenier by Madeleine Gaudreault-Labrecque
Biography
First Thoughts
By Carole Gerson
Published in Fictional Patterns. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 99 (Winter 1983): 176-177.
  • Second Words by Margaret Atwood (Author)
That Delightful Canadian
By Carole Gerson
Published in Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 113-115.
  • Sara Jeannette Duncan, Novelist of Empire by Thomas E. Tausky (Author)
  • Sara Jeannette Duncan, Selected Journalism by Thomas E. Tausky (Author)
Anthologies
More from Moss
By Carole Gerson
Published in Timothy Findley & the War Novel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 91 (Winter 1981): 166-167.
  • The Canadian Novel, vol. II, Beginnings by John Moss (Author)
Anthologies
Remembering, Fragmenting
By Carole Gerson
Published in Contemporary Quebec Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 88 (Spring 1981): 124-126.
  • Wings in the Wind by Diane Giguere (Author) and Alan Brown (Translator)
  • Children of My Heart by Gabrielle Roy and Alan Brown (Translator)
Essays
Lost—and Found
By Carole Gerson
Published in Contemporary Dramatists & the Art of the Theatre. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 85 (Summer 1980): 120-122.
  • Canada's Lost Plays. Volume One—The Nineteenth Century. Volume Two—Women Pioneers by Richard Plant (Editor) and Anton Wagner (Editor)
Three Faces of French Canada
By Carole Gerson
Published in Journals: Self & Society. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 82 (Autumn 1979): 115-118.
  • Quince Jam by Jacques Ferron (Editor) and Ray Ellenwood (Translator)
  • Garden in the Wind by Gabrielle Roy (Author) and Alan Brown (Translator)
  • Social Realism in the French-Canadian Novel by Ben-Zion Shek (Author)
Drama Nineteenth Century

Articles by Carole Gerson

Writers Without Borders: The Global Framework of Canada's Early Literary History
By Carole Gerson
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 15-33.
The Most Canadian of all Canadian Poets: Pauline Johnson and the Construction of a National Literature
By Carole Gerson
Published in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 90-107.
Culture First Nations History Quebec Women's Studies
Sarah Binks and Edna Jaques: Parody, Gender, and the Construction of Literary Value
By Carole Gerson
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 62-73.
Mrs. Moodie's Beloved Partner
By Carole Gerson
Published in The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 34-45.
Children's Literature Exploration
Duncan's Web
By Carole Gerson
Published in Wilderness and Utopia. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 63 (Winter 1975): 73-80.
Literary Criticism Short Fiction

Book Reviews of Carole Gerson's Works

Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the Air, 1914-1960
By Carole Gerson, Peggy Lynn Kelly, Sandra Campbell and S. Leigh Matthews
Reviewed in Agents against Their Erasure by Melanie Power
Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918
By Carole Gerson
Reviewed in Reclaiming the Lost by J. A. Weingarten
History of the Book in Canada: Volume Three
By Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon
Reviewed in Communities of Print by Eva-Marie Kröller
Canadian Studies Media & Communications Publishing Women's Literature Women's Studies
E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose
By Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag
Reviewed in E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: The Texts by Cecily Devereux
Eighteenth Century History Nineteenth Century Publishing
Roland Graeme, Knight
By Agnes Maule Machar and Carole Gerson
Reviewed in Excelsior! Religion and Reform in Nineteenth Century Canada by Misao Dean
First Nations Poetry
A Purer Taste. The Writing and Reading of Fiction in English in Nineteenth-Century Canada
By Carole Gerson
Reviewed in Real & Ideal by Wolfgang Klooss
Nineteenth Century Novel Ontario Religion Women's Studies
Vancouver Short Stories
By Carole Gerson
Reviewed in Vancouver MInd by David Stouck
The Prose of Life: Sketches from Victorian Canada
By Kathy Mezei and Carole Gerson
Reviewed in Victorian Sketches by Elizabeth Waterston
Anthologies Short Fiction