Downtown Canada

By Justin D. Edwards

Subjects: Canadian fiction, history and criticism, General, Canadian, Littérature et société, Vie urbaine dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, Canadian fiction, Littérature canadienne, Literatur, Stadt, American, Roman canadien, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Literature and society, Canadian literature, history and criticism, City and town life in literature, Canadian literature

Description: "Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities - including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax - and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature. They examine how characters are affected by the urban experience in works by authors as diverse as the country itself: Hugh MacLennan, Jovette Marchessault, Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke, and Gerald Lynch, to name just a few. Editors Justin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison have brought together an esteemed group of international Canadian literary scholars. Together they have created a book that is timely and unique, questioning conventional assumptions about Canadian literature, and Canadian culture more generally."--Jacket.