When Canadian Literature Moved to New York

(Part of the Studies in Book and Print Culture Series)

by Nick Mount

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Canadian literature was born in New York City. It began not in the backwoods of Ontario or the salt flats of New Brunswick, but in the caf's, publishing offices, and boarding houses of late nineteenth-century New York, where writing developed as a profession and where the groundwork for the Canadian canon was laid. So argues Nick Mount in "When Canadian Literature Moved to New York."The last decades of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary exodus...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080203828X

ISBN13:9780802038289

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:217 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) World Literature Writing Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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