When Canadian Literature Moved to New York

by Nick Mount

Book Overview

Canadian literature was born in New York City. It began not in the backwoods of Ontario or the salt flats of New Brunswick, but in the caf's, publishing offices, and boarding houses of late nineteenth-century New York, where writing developed as a profession and where the groundwork for the Canadian canon was laid. So argues Nick Mount in "When Canadian Literature Moved to New York."The last decades of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary exodus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080203828X
• ISBN13: 9780802038289
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"