Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions

by Sherrill Grace

Since his drowning in 1917, Tom Thomson has been recreated by poets, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, biographers, and other artists as a legendary figure synonymous with Canada and its northern identity. Touted as a great artist cut off in his prime, his mysterious death in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, and the controversy about his final resting-place fired the popular imagination and raised him to the status of a national hero. In "Inventing Tom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773527524
• ISBN13: 9780773527522
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"