Oxford University Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Postcolonial Life Narrative: Testimonial Transactions by Gillian Whitlock
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Australian History by Jan Bassett
Say Yes by Miriam Waddington
Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco
Point Pelee by William Reynolds
Two-headed Poems and Others by Margaret Atwood
Poems: New & Selected by Patrick Lane
Short Fiction: An Anthology by Rosemary Sullivan and Mark Levene
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Besley
Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making by Margaret R. Conrad and James Hiller
The Oxford Guide to World English by Tom McArthur
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery. Volume V: 1935-1942 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterson
The St. Lawrence by William Toye
The Letters of Stephen Leacock by David Staines
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery.Volume V: 1935-1942 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation by Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs by Katherine Barber
A Concise History of Canadian Architecture by Harold Kalman
The Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy Fulfilled, A Tale of the Late American War by John Richardson and Donald Stephens
The Last Landscape by Miriam Waddington
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Barbour and Christopher Butler
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Barbour and Catherine Besley
Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making by Ian G. Lumsden and James Hiller
The Clockmaker. Series One, Two and Three by George Parker
Reading Life Writing: An Anthology by Marlene Kadar
Inside the Poem by W. H. New
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand, Second Edition by Keith Sinclair
The First World War by Michael Howard
Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner
Divine Inspirations: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry by Robert Atwan, George Dardess and Peggy Rosenthal
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien and Mark Williams
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English by Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie
A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples by Barry M. Pritzker
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English by Rosemary Sullivan
The Oxford Companion to the Body by Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett
True North: The Yukon and the Northwest Territories by William R. Morrison
A Concise History of Christianity in Canada by Terence Murphy and Roberto Perin
Glenn Gould by John P. L. Roberts and Ghyslaine Guertin
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume Four, 1929-1935 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories by Saros Cowasjee
Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada by Smaro Kamboureli
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume III: 1921-1929 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterson
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume III: 1921-1929 by Klaus Stich and Mary Rubio
15 Canadian Poets x 3 by Gary Geddes
Guide to Canadian English usage by Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine
Magic Island: The Fictions of L. M. Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterston
Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature by Smaro Kamboureli
A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English by Russell Morton Brown and Donna Bennett
Electra by Sophocles and Anne Carson
Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues by Peter S. Li
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine
Flying Lesson by Paulette Jiles
The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture by Lucy Bending
Canadian Children's Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators by Raymond Jones and Jon Stott
Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920 by David E. Shi
The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen
The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes by Michael Mason
Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology by Germaine Warkentin
Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth Century Gothic by Eugenia C. DeLamotte
The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion by Mac Reynolds and Victor Howard
The Iron Wedge by Lionel Groulx
The Terrible Finn MacCoul by Tom Harpur and Linda Hendry
Canadian Film by David Clandfield
The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England by Sylvia Myers
Selected Poems by Margaret Avison
Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions by Linda Hutchinson and Marion Richmond
Notes by Eva-Marie Kröller
The Century That Made Us: Canada 1814-1914 by George Woodcock
Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life by Joan Givner
Apartment Seven: Essays Selected and New by Miriam Waddington
Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies by Linda Hutcheon
Reading Mavis Gallant by Janice Kulyk Keefer
Canadian Folklore by Edith Fowke
The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of 'St. George' Orwell
The Sinking of the Princess Sophia
The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction by Linda Hutcheon
The Canadian Short Story by Eberhard Kreutzer and Michelle Gadpaille
A Soviet Odyssey by Suzanne Rosenberg
Selected Poems by Patrick Lane
Naomi's Road by Joy Kogawa
Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia, 2 vols. by W. H. New
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume II: 1910-1921 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony by D. J. Enright
The Oxford Dictionary of Art by W. H. New
Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other Essays by Adele Wiseman
Essays on New France by W. J. Eccles
The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture by Giles Gunn
The Dragon and other Laurentian Tales by Claude Jasmin and Patricia Sillers
The Bourgeois Experience. Victoria to Freud. Vol I. The Education of the Senses by Peter Gay
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986 by Margaret Atwood
Emigrants and Exiles by Kerby A. Miller
Feminist Radicalism in the 1980's by Angela Miles
Feminism Now: Theory and Practice by Marilouise Kroker and Arthur Kroker et al.
The Tender Passion by Peter Gay
The Glass Air: Selected Poems by P. K. Page
The Enchanted Caribou by Elizabeth Cleaver
Don?t Eat Spiders by Robert Heidbreder and Karen Patkau
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume I: 1889-1910 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
The Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada by Colin Read and Ronald J. Staggs
Canadian Political Thought by H. D. Forbes
Midnight Matinees by Jay Scott
The Modern Poetic Sequence: The Genius of Modern Poetry by M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall
Interlunar by Margaret Atwood
The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories by Richard Teleky
A Basket of Apples: Recollections of Nova Scotia by Harry Bruce and Chic Harris
City Light: A Portrait of Toronto by W. H. New and John de Visser
Treasures of the Sea: Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by W. H. New and James Cribb
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film by W. H. New and Erik Barnouw
Old Mother by Dorothy Livesay and Patrick Lane
The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 by J. L. Granatstein
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English by Margaret Atwood
Contexts of Canada's Past: Selected Essays by W. L. Morton by A. B. McKillop
Economic and Social History of Québec, 1760-1850 by Fernand Ouellet
Sick Heart River by John Buchan
True Stories by Margaret Atwood
The Visitants by Miriam Waddington
Point Pelee
The St. John River Valley
Upper Canada Village
Honor Bound by Mary Alice and John Downie
Kings Landing: Country Life in Early Canada by W. H. New, Wayne Barret and George MacBeth
The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales from Quebec by Marius Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky
Canadian Short Stories: Third Series by Robert Weaver
Two-headed Poems and Others by Margaret Atwood and Lorraine Weir
Poems: New & Selected
Emily Carr, A Biography by Maria Tippett
Personal Fictions by Michael Ondaatje
Great Days in the Rockies: The Photographs of Byron Harmon 1906-1934 by W. H. New and Carole Harmon
A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada by W. H. New and Robert H. Handy
So Many Freedoms: A Study of the Major Fiction of Mulk Raj Anand by Saros Cowasjee
Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War by Brereton Greenhous and W. A. B. Douglas
Horizon by Ken Mitchell
The Price of Gold by Miriam Waddington
Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood
Malcolm Lowry by Douglas Day
The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature by Robert Weaver and William Toye
Johnson's Sermons: A Study by James Gray
The Canadian Oxford Desk Atlas of the World
Canada's Search for New Roles by Peter C. Dobell
Trudeau and Foreign Policy by Bruce Thordarson
Happy Enough: Poems 1935-1972 by George Johnston
An Introduction to the Australian Novel 1830-1930 by Barry Argyle
Commonwealth Literature by William Walsh
Roughing It in the Bush or Life of Canada by Carl Ballstadt
Driving Home by Miriam Waddington
Dawn and the Darkest Hour, A Study of Aldous Huxley by George Woodcock
Folk Songs from Newfoundland by Maud Karpeles
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature by William Toye
Alexander Mackenzie and the Northwest by Roy Daniells
Poetry of French in Translation by John Glassco
Canada and the Canadians by George Woodcock
Procedures for Underground by Margaret Atwood
The Writing of J. M. Synge by Robin Skelton
How Summer Came to Canada by Elizabeth Cleaver and William Toye
The Mountain Goats of Temlaham by Elizabeth Cleaver and William Toye
Canada by Guy Fregault
Ordinary, Moving by Phyllis Gottlieb
Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature by L. F. Ashley, G. T. Stubbs and Sheila Egoff
The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood
A Collection of Private Devotions by John Cosin, Daniel O'Connor and P. G. Stanwood
The Norse Discoveries of America: The Wineland Sagas by G. M. Gathorne-Hardy
Canadian Short Stories by Robert Weaver
The Doukhobors by Ivan Avakumovic and George Woodcock
Two Innocents in Red China by Jacques Hebert and Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Crisis at the Victory Burlesk by Robert Fulford
No Passport: A Discovery of Canada
India and World Politics: Krishna Menon's View of the World
As Is by Raymond Souster
The Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children's Literature in English by Sheila Egoff
Salvation! O The Joyful Sound: The Selected Writing of John Carroll by John Webster Grant
The Modern Century by Northrop Frye
Phrases From Orpheus by D. G. Jones
The Animals in That Country by Margaret Atwood
The Glass Trumpet by Miriam Waddington
Home Free by George Johnston
Building Canada: An Architectural History of Canadian Life by Alan Gowans
New Federations: Experiments in the Commonwealth by R. L. Watts
Modern Canadian Verse by A. J. M. Smith
Poems, New and Collected by A. J. M. Smith
A Point of Sky by John Glassco
Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson by John Carroll
The Oxford Movement by E. R. Fairweather
A Choice of Critics by George Woodcock
A Divided Voice by Francis Sparshott
The Norse Atlantic Saga by Gwyn Jones
Tales of Nanabozho by Dorothy M. Reid
Poland, Bridge for the Abyss? by Richard Hiscocks
The Double Knights: More Tales from Round the World by James McNeill
The Commonwealth and Suez by James Eayrs
The New States of Asia by Michael Brecher
A Beach of Strangers by John Reeves
Documents on Canadian Foreign Policy 1917-39 by Walter Riddell
The Life of Henry Brougham to 1830 by Chester New
The First Five Years: A Selection from The Tamarack Review by Robert Weaver
Running to Paradise by Kildare Dobbs