The Search for English-Canadian Literature : An Anthology of Critical Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 THE EARLY REALISM -- Introduction to the Canadian Magazine and Literary Repository (1823) -- Essay on the Advantages that Might be Derived from the Establishment of a Literary Association in Montreal (1826) -- Our Literature Present and Prospective (1848) -- Canadian Poetry (1858) -- PART 2 CULTURAL ECONOMICS AND CANADIAN PHILISTINISM -- Protection for Canadian Literature (1858) -- Literature, Nationality, and the Tariff (1889) -- Saunterings (1886) -- American Influence on Canadian Thought (1887) -- PART 3 THE QUALITY OF LITERARY CRITICISM -- Criticism (1884) -- Native Literature and the Scoffing Spirit (1888) -- Literary Criticism: Its Scope and Effect (1898) -- On Criticism (1886) -- Saunterings (1887) -- Literature in Canada: Part Two (1899) -- The Purpose of a National Magazine (1901) -- PART 4 THE DEBATE ON A 'NATIONAL' LITERATURE -- Our Chances for a Literature (1890) -- 'What is the Matter with Canadian Literature?' (1894) -- Mr Goldwin Smith and Canadian Literature (1894) -- The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion (1867) -- Education and National Sentiment (1881) -- Should Our Literature be Canadian? (1897) -- A Fresh View of Canadian Literature (1912) -- National Literature (1884) -- PART 5 EUROPE AND THE CANADIAN IMAGINATION -- The Academy and the Grove in Canada (1878) -- Backgrounds of Future Canadian Poetry (1915) -- Apollo and Tomkins (1898) -- Poetic Art in Canada (1891) -- PART 6 THE NORTHERN NATION -- The New Canada (1875) -- On Northern Culture (1869) -- Literature (1899) -- PART 7 THE ADVANTAGE OF TWO CULTURES -- Letters in Canada (1887) -- Nationalism and the Literary Spirit (1888) -- A Plea for Literature (1908) -- PART 8 THE CHARACTER AND ACHIEVEMENT OF CANADIAN POETRY -- Canadian Poetry: A Criticism (1896) -- A Word in Vindication (1897) -- A Decade of Canadian Poetry (1901).

The Genius of Canadian Poetry (1911) -- The Poetry of Common Things (1889) -- Some Canadian Writers of Today (1890) -- A New Conception (1893) -- The Status of Overseas Literature (1926) -- Canadian Letter (1928?).

This book provides essential background to anyone concerned with the path Canadian literature followed to modern times.

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