Unreal country : modernity in the Canadian novel in English / Glenn Willmott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willmott, Glenn, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Modernism (Literature)--Canada.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

236 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to inherited values and tastes, and with radical novelty to the future, varieties of modernism anxiously express both the ends of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of Postmodernism, and thus the feeling of a crisis that continues to haunt contemporary life. Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Utopia of the Common Type

Genre: Modernism and the Bildungsroman

Style: The Disfiguring of Development

Gender: The Feminization of History

Region: The Invisible City and the Abstract Empire

A Withdrawal of Fortune

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86057-7

9786612860577

0-7735-7034-9

OCLC:

929120792