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When Canadian Literature Moved To New York 9781442683310
Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Lamentations
Chapter 2. Agents of Modernism
Chapter 3. Living the Significant Life
Chapter 4. The New Romantics
Chapter 5. Exodus Lost
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index
Studies in Book and Print Culture
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WHEN CANADIAN LITERATURE MOVED TO NEW YORK
Canadian literature began not in the backwoods of Ontario or the salt flats of New Brunswick, but in the cafes, 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 from English Canada, draining the country of half its writers and all but a few of its literary celebrities. Motivated by powerful obstacles to a do
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Alberta's Cavalry heading to Canadian Premier League Final
A championship rematch five years in the making is officially on the docket.
Cavalry FC earned its spot in the Canadian Premier League Playoff Final versus Forge FC with a gritty 2-1 result in the semifinal on Saturday afternoon at Spruce Meadows over a Pacific FC squad riding a wave of post-season momentum.
"They're a terrific side and it's one of those where we keep writing new history," said Cavalry FC head coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. "That's what we've done tonight, we've buried a ghost of the past. It is around Halloween time so there's another ghost to be buried and what better way to do it than to go to Tim Hortons Field?
"They've won three out of four playoff trophies, why not go win it in their house? And we believe that we can."
The visitors entered the elimination contest on the heels of two playoff wins in a four-day period over York United at home and on the
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