The United States at Jalna
Abstract: THE ALNA NOVELS are best known for their evocation of ДНЕ the British ideal in a Canadian setting. The Whiteoaks ...
The University Presses
Abstract: I.Ν THE MIDST of the crises and passions that havecharacter- ized so much of Canadian book publishing in recent years ...
The Unwitting Elegiac
Abstract: The substance of this article will appear in somewhat different form as a chapter in Paul West’s book on Newfoundland, ...
The Unyielding Phrase
Abstract: M,LYFATHERWAS BORNONAFARMПбЯГFort McLeod, Alberta, in igo8. He was not an educated man. My grandfather took him out of school when ...
The Use of the Fantastic in Denys Chabot’s “L’Eldorado dans les Glaces”
Abstract: IEEVW QUÉBEC NOVELS are truly fantastic works and among these, Denys Chabot’s Eldorado on Ice is one of the most ...
The Various Voices: Poems of the Unofficial Cultures
Abstract: С(ANADIAN POETRY is almost always thought of as being in English or French. The bulk of it is. But not ...
The Vernacular in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Colleges
Abstract: IN THE SPRING OF i860, a special hearing in Canada’s House of Assembly in Quebec heard Egerton Ryerson hurl impassioned ...
The Village of Melons: Impressions of a Canadian Author in Mexico
Abstract: ASKED SOME YEARS AGO as to my most memorable impression of my months in Mexico, I involuntarily and with lingering ...
The Vital Pretense: McDougall’s Execution
Abstract: BEFORE PUBLISHING the novel Execution, Colin McDougall allowed himself fourteen years to ponder his experience of World War II. During ...
The War at Home: Writing Influenza in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918)
Abstract: Alice Munro’s short story “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr’s play Unity (1918) are among the relatively few twentieth-century Canadian depictions of the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, a devastating global pandemic that produced the same kind of public health measures and social upheaval as the recent coronavirus COVID-19. While Unity (1918) explores how caregiving responsibilities were thrust upon women because the nation’s medical resources were overwhelmed, “Carried Away” considers how the transmission of romantic passion can parallel both influenza’s contagion and the dissemination of subversive political ideas. Drawing on the work of literary scholars and medical historians, this essay aims to assess how Spanish flu has been used in Canadian fiction and drama. While it has been alleged that World War I’s “soldiers have been remembered while the sick have been forgotten” (Davis 61), Munro’s and Kerr’s portrayals suggest a more nuanced use of influenza history.