McGill-Queen’s University Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer
Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples by Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach and Adele Perry
Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction by Cheryl Cowdy
The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie
Vlarf by Jason Camlot
Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete by Eleonore Schönmaier
whereabouts by Edward Carson
Daughters of Aataentsic by Kathryn Magee Labelle
The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields by Nora Foster Stovel
Attending: An Ethical Art by Warren Heiti
Flight from Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds by Richard Pope
Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920 by Kym Bird
Check by Sarah Tolmie
Ripping Down Half the Trees by Evan J
False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction by Julie Rak
Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada by Marie Carrière
Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings by Nora Foster Stovel
Canadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning by Mark Dickinson
The Productions of Time: A Study of the Human Imagination by Michael Dolzani
Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement by Jody Mason
Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by Kailin Wright
We Still Here: Hip Hop of the 49th Parallel by Charity Marsh and Mark V. Campbell
Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books by Eli MacLaren
A House of Memory: Last Poems by David Helwig
Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace by Bronwen Wallace and Carolyn Smart
The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics by Johanna Skibsrud
CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event by Katherine McLeod and Jason Camlot
The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick by Tony Tremblay
Equivocal City: French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal by Patrick Coleman
On High by Neil Surkan
Recasting History: How CBC Television Has Shaped Canada’s Past by Monica MacDonald
Reading Between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel by Gillian Roberts
Short Histories of Light by Aidan Chafe
Comparative Literature for the New Century by Joseph Pivato and Giulia De Gasperi
War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature by Robert McGill
Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman
James Cook: The Voyages by William Frame and Laura Walker
The Art of Dying by Sarah Tolmie
Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada by Cecilia Morgan
West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative by Katherine Ann Roberts
Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore
Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw by Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace
Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada by Marlene Goldman
Slow War by Benjamin Hertwig
The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art: The First Sixty Years of the Canada Council for the Arts by Monica Gattinger
Catharine Parr Traill's The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas
Dust Blown Side of the Journey by Eleonore Schönmaier
Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada by Claire Elizabeth Campbell
L.M. Montgomery and War by Andrea McKenzie and Jane Ledwell
Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics by Barry Freeman
TransCanadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics by Libe García Zarranz
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief by Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen E. Landman
Negative Cosmopolitanism: Cultures and Politics of Citizenship after Globalization by Eddy Kent and Terri Tomsky
Performance Studies in Canada by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer
Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930 by Claudie Massicotte
With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience by Dale Tracy
Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton by Mary Chapman
The Rules of the Kingdom by Julie Paul
Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy by Len Kuffert
Knots by Edward Carson
A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America by Benedicte Ingstad
The Complete Poems of George Whalley by Michael John DiSanto
Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture by Paul Huebener
Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution by Jeffery Donaldson
Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 2: The Port Nelson Relations, Miscellaneous Writings, and Related Documents by Germaine Warkentin
The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts by David Thompson and William E. Moreau
Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future by Northrop Frye, Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar and Germaine Warkentin
Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising by Michael L. Ross
Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst by Brent Wood and Mark Dickinson
Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border by Gillian Roberts
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America Vol 1 & 2 by Nancy J. Turner
Disunified Aesthetics: situated textuality, performativity, collaboration by Lynette Hunter
In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada by Janice Williamson
Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film by Heather Latimer
The Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896 by Yvan Lamonde, Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past by Winfried Siemerling
Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier
Some Dance by Ricardo Sternberg
Outside, Inside by Michael Penny
The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir by Judith Cowan
In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman by Sherry Simon
Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress by Eric Ball
Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press by Sandra Campbell
Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens by Shelley Boyd
Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 1: The Voyages by Germaine Warkentin
Refereeing Identity by Michael Buma
Phoenix by Sharon Stewart and Roderick Stewart
The Love Queen of Malabar by Merrily Weisbord
From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada by Ian Rae
Painting the Map Red by Carman Miller
The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1 by William E. Moreau and David Thompson
The Love Queen of Malabar by Merrily Weisbord
A Gentleman of Pleasure by Brian Busby
Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 by Ken S. Coates
So Vast and Various: Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by John Warkentin
New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction by Marie Vautier
Anxious Allegiances: Legitimizing Identity in the Early Canadian Long Poem by C. D. Mazoff
Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain by Reinhold Kramer
The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography by Reinhold Kramer
Letters From Rupert's Land, 1826-1840 by Helen E. Ross
Imagined Nations: Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction by David Williams
The Living Prism: Itineraries in Comparative Literature by Eva Kushner
Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge by Peter Swirski
Coalescence of Styles: The Ethnic Heritage of St. John River Valley Regional Furniture, 1763-1851 by Jane L. Cook
Stories of the Middle Space by Deborah Bowen
Marian and the Major by Christl Verduyn
Palilalia by Jeffery Donaldson
Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction by Marlene Goldman
Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women by Méira Cook
We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English Canadian Elegy by Priscila Uppal
Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings by Nora Foster Stovel
The Torontonians by Phyllis Brett Young
Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood by Cathy Stonehouse, Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam
Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context by W. H. New and Marta Dvorák
Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief by Suzanne Evans
Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada by Danielle Fuller
A Woman with Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko by Yuzo Ota
Not Needing All the Words: Michael Ondaatje’s Literature of Silence by Annick Hillger
Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II by Walter W. Igersheimer and Ian Darragh
Understanding Military Culture by Allan D. English
Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada by Lorna Roth
The Silver Palace Restaurant by Mark Abley
Watching Quebec: Selected Essays by Ramsay Cook
How to be a Green Liberal: Nature, Value and Liberal Philosophy by Simon Hailwood
Hurt Thyself by Andrew Steinmetz
A History for the Future: Rewriting Memory and Identity in Quebec by Jocelyn Létourneau, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
Juno Beach: 3rd Canadian and 79th Armoured Divisions by Tim Saunders
Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec by Margaret Bennett
Literary Sisterhoods: Imagining Women Artists by Deborah Heller
Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism. 40th Anniversary Edition by George P. Grant
Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel by Wendy Roy
Setting in the East: Maritime Realist Fiction by David Creelman
Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650 by Carole Blackburn
Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels by Gabriele Helms
Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario by James E. Moran
Coalescence of Styles: The Ethnic Heritage of St.John River Valley Regional Furniture, 1763-1851 by Jane L. Cook and Ian G. Lumsden
Tyendinaga Tales by Rona Rustige
A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk by Ingeborg Marshall
A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory by Norman Ravvin
What's to Eat? by Nathalie Cooke
The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay
Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English by Helen M. Buss
Steamboat Connection: Montreal to Upper Canada 1816-1843 by Frank Mackey
A Dream of Sulphur by Aurian Haller
Hanna's Diary, 1938-1941 by Hanna Spencer
The Asparagus Feast by S. P. Zitner
Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text by Mary Jean Green
Creating Societies: Immigrant lives in Canada by Dirk Hoerder
Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form by W. H. New
Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial by Erika Gottlieb
The Excluded Wife by Yuen-Fong Woon
Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women by Nancy Wachowich, Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak and Sandra Pikujak Katsak
The Portugese in Canada by Carlos Teixeira and Victor M. P. Da Rosa
Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 by Sherrill Grace and C. Stuart Houston
Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 by C. Stuart Houston and I.S. MacLaren
The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World by Gérard Bouchard, Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne
The Practice of Her Profession by Susan Butlin
Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross by M. J. Ross
Silenced Sextet: Six Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women Novelists by Carrie Macmillan, Lorraine McMullen and Elizabeth Waterson
The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T .S. Eliot, W.B.Yeats, and the Occult by Leon Surette
The Last French and Indian War: An Inquiry into a Safe-Conduct Issued in 1760 that Acquired the Value of a Treaty in 1990 by Denis Vaugeois and Kate Roth
The Virtual Marshall McLuhan by Donald F. Theall
Canada and the Idea of North by Sherrill Grace
Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture by Renée Hulan
Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century by Clarence Karr
Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel by Nancy Roberts
Anxious Allegiances: Legitimizing Identity in the Early Canadian Long Poem
A Long Way from Home: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit by Pat Sandiford Grygier
Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth Century by Mark Bell
Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada by D. M. R. Bentley
Her Festival Clothes by Mavis Jones
People from Our Side by Peter Pitseolak and Dorothy Harley Eber
Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge by Leo Driedger and Shiva S. Halli
Chess Pieces by David Solway
Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing by Jodey Castricano
Censorship in Canadian Literature by Mark Cohen
Robert Creeley: A Biography by Ekbert Faas and Maria Trombacco
The War Diary of Clare Gass by Susan Mann
Justice in Paradise by Bruce Clark
A Silent Revolution? Gender and Wealth in English Canada 1860-1930 by Peter Baskerville
The Work of Words: The Writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie by John Thurston
Racism, Sexism, and the University: The Political Science Affair at the University of British Columbia by M. Patricia Marchak
The Blacks in Canada: A History by Robin W. Winks
A Bridge Built Halfway: A History of Memorial University College by Malcolm MacLeod
As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy's Story by Patricia Morley
From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite: The Birth of Class and Nationalism Among Canadian Inuit by Marybelle Mitchell
The Living Prism: Itinerarires in Comparative Literature
From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839 by William Barr
English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830s by Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines and Mary McDougall Maude
Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century by Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean and Kate O’Rourke
Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums by Martha Langford
The Dream of Nation. A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec by Susan Mann
Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec by Miléna Santoro
The Buried Astolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition by Craig Stewart Walker
Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History by Herb Wyile
Between the Temple and the Cave: The Religious Dimensions of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt by Angela T. McAuliffe
Strangers Among Us by David C. Woodman
Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson and John Rugge
The Old Dualities: Deconstructing Robert Kroetsch and His Critics by Dianne Tiefensee