Highways of Canadian Literature
by Donald G. French J. D. Logan
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About This Book
Highways of Canadian Literature provides teachers and students in educational institutions and readers in general with a complete history of the Canadian literature extant in the English language. In very recent years Canadian universities and colleges have added to their curricula systematic study of the verse and prose of the chief writers born in or resident in the Dominion. Also, teachers in Canadian academies and high schools, as occasion affords opportunity, inform their pupils about the lives and work of Canadian authors. Further: as expressive of the new and increasing interest in Cana...
Chapters (286)
- CHAPTER I
- Social and Spiritual Bases
- CHAPTER II
- Incidental Pioneer Literature
- CHAPTER III
- Joseph Howe
- CHAPTER IV
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- CHAPTER V
- Romance and Poetry
- Part II.
- Post Confederation Literature (1887-1924)
- CHAPTER VI
- The Systematic School
- CHAPTER VII
- Charles G. D. Roberts
- CHAPTER VIII
- Archibald Lampman
- CHAPTER IX
- Bliss Carman
- CHAPTER X
- Duncan Campbell Scott
- CHAPTER XI
- Wilfred Campbell
- CHAPTER XII
- Pauline Johnson
- CHAPTER XIII
- Parker and Scott (F. G.)
- CHAPTER XIV
- Minor Poets
- CHAPTER XV
- Elegiac Monodists
- CHAPTER XVI
- Novelists
- I. The Historical Romancers.
- II. The Romancers of Animal Psychology.
- III. The Evangelical Romance.
- CHAPTER XVII
- Short Story Writers
- CHAPTER XVIII
- William Henry Drummond
- CHAPTER XIX
- The Vaudeville School
- CHAPTER XX
- The Restoration Period
- CHAPTER XXI
- Fiction Writers
- 1. The Community Novel.
- 2. The Institutional Novel.
- 3. The Realistic Romance.
- 4. Historical Fiction.
- 5. Imaginative Fiction.
- 6. Some Miscellaneous Types.
- 7. The New Realism.
- CHAPTER XXII
- The Poetic Dramatists
- CHAPTER XXIII
- Humorists
- CHAPTER XXIV
- National Stage Drama
- Part III.
- Special and Miscellaneous Literature (1760-1924)
- CHAPTER XXV
- The War Poetry of Canada
- I. THE POETRY OF THE CIVIL REBELLION AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
- II. THE POETRY OF THE WORLD WAR
- CHAPTER XXVI
- Hymn Writers
- CHAPTER XXVII
- Literary Criticism
- I. Schools of Literary Criticism.
- II. The Synoptic Method.
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- Essayists and Color Writers
- CHAPTER XXIX
- Anthologies
- CHAPTER XXX
- Canadian Journalism
- CHAPTER XXXI
- Narrative Literature
- I. History.
- II. Biography.
- III. Travels, Exploration, Sport.
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