When Canadian Literature Moved to New York.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Lamentations -- In the Camp of the Philistines -- The Continental 'We' -- Modern Alexandria -- 2 Agents of Modernism -- Supplementary Adam -- Will Roberts and the Literary Digest -- Laughing It Off -- Palmer Cox, the Brownie Man -- 3 Living the Significant Life -- The Apostle of the Vagabonds -- Saint Craven of Harlem -- The Ascent and Fall of Stinson Jarvis -- Thinking New Thoughts -- The Making of Almon Hensley -- 4 The New Romantics -- Wolf Thompson, Wilderness Prophet -- Now for the Killing: Edwyn Sandys -- 'Three Musketeers of the Pen' -- A Solomon of Little Syria -- The Bewitchment of Charles G.D. Roberts -- 5 Exodus Lost -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

When Canadian Literature Moved to New Yorkis the story of these expatriate writers: who they were, why they left, what they achieved, and how they changed Canadian literary history.

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