Front page of The Globe, December 2, 1845. via Wikipedia.
Extra! Extra! Read all about “The Periodical Press: Newspapers, Magazines, and Literary Culture in Early Canada” in the CanLit Guides chapter by Ceilidh Hart!
The book tends to get a great deal of focus in contemporary Canadian literary culture: literary awards, national reading programs such as Canada Reads, university courses, even, tend to place the book at the centre. And yet, in the nineteenth century, it was the periodical press—magazines and newspapers—that drove Canada’s cultural life. This chapter, using the writing career of Isabella Valancy Crawford as a case study, explores the importance to readers and writers alike of periodical publishing in early Canada, and the profound role it played in shaping a national literary culture at that time.
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