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Jennifer Drouin‘s (University of Alabama) monograph Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation was published by University of Toronto Press in March. The book traces the evolution of discourses of nation and gender in Québec from the Conquest of New France to the present through the lenses of […]
Mary Chapman’s (UBC) book Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism, which treats the suffragist engagements of canonical authors such as Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Sui Sin Far, as well as less canonical, middlebrow authors such as Alice Duer Miller and Elizabeth Jordan, is now […]
Julia M. Wright’s (Dalhousie) book Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism is now available, with Syracuse UP. Mary Helen Thuente calls it “a major contribution to Irish literary and intellectual history.” James Kelley, editor of Ireland and Romanticism, writes: “the book combines incredible archival research with theoretical nous. It […]
Christine Bold’s (Guelph) The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 was published earlier this year, with Oxford UP. CHOICE calls the book: “Superbly researched and written… It is refreshing to see women, African Americans, and Native Americans getting a fair shake in Bold’s tale, and to […]
Daniel Hannah (Lakehead) has just published Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public, with Ashgate. “Challenging solely phenomenological or pictorial accounts of literary impressionism, Hannah focuses on James’s treatment of the word ‘impression’ as a mediatory unit that both resists and accommodates invasive publicity. Thus even as he envisages a […]
