Equivocal city : French and English novels of postwar Montreal / Patrick Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French-Canadian fiction--Québec (Province).

French-Canadian fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.

Summary:

A fresh approach to Montreal fiction, integrating French and English novels into a common literary history.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Texts and Translations

Introduction

Part One Solitude and the City in the 1940s

1 Politics and Promiscuity in Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes

2 Gendered Mediations: Gwethalyn Graham's Earth and High Heaven

3 Temptation and Tenderness in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute)

Part Two Shaky Solidarities: The 1950s

4 Witnesses to Weakness Compassion and Civic Consensus in Fictions of the 1950s

5 A Precarious Maturity Anglophone Satire at the End of the 1950s

6 Failing Better Francophone Novels on the Eve of the Quiet Revolution

Part Three Solutions and Dissolutions

7 Twilight of the Idols, Dawnof a New Day Jacques Ferron's La Nuit (The Night) and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780773554856

0773554858

9780773555693

0773555692

OCLC:

1061037127