Medievalism in English Canadian Literature

<p>The essays in this volume consider what is original and distinctive about the manifestation of medievalism in Canadan literature and its origins and its subsequent growth and development: from the first novel published in Canada written by a Canadian-born author Julia Beckwith Hart's <em>St Ursula's Convent </em>(1824) to the recent work of the best-selling novelist Patrick DeWitt (<em>Undermajordomo Minor</em> published in 2015). Topics addressed include the strong strain of medievalist fantasy itself in the work of the young-adult author Kit Pearson and the longer novels of Charles de Lint Steven Erikson and Guy Gavriel Kay; the medievalist inclinations of Archibald Lampman and W.W. Campbell well-known nineteenth-century Canadian poets; and the often-studied <em>Wacousta</em> by John Richardson first published in 1832. Chapters also cover early Canadian periodicals' engagement with orientalist medievalism; and works by twentieth-century writers such as the irrepressible Earle Birney the witty and intellectual Robertson Davies and the fascinating and learned Margaret Atwood.<br /><br />M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.<br /><br />Contributors: D.M.R. Bentley Agnieszka Klis-Brodowska Anna Czarnowus Brian Johnson Laurel Ryan David Watt M.J. Toswell Dominika Ruszkiewicz Cory Rushton Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun Ewa Drab and Michael Fox.</p>