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By the last decade of the nineteenth century, New York City had established itself as the publishing capital of the United States, drawing many of the countrys great writers. But as Nick Mount reveals in this study, New York became a magnet for Canadian writers as well and thus the seedbed of modern Canadian literature. This meticulously researched and engagingly written book chronicles, for the first time, a crucial phase in the literary history of Canada.-Jeffrey Wollock (New York City), Visiting Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University
List of contents
Introduction 1 Lamentations In the Camp of the Philistines The Continental 'We' Modern Alexandria 2 Agents of Modernism Supplementary Adam Will Roberts and the Literary Digest Laughing It Off Palmer Cox, the Brownie Man 3 Living the Significant Life The Apostle of the Vagabonds Saint Craven of Harlem The Ascent and Fall of Stinson Jarvis Thinking New Thoughts The Making of Almon Hensley 4 The New Romantics Wolf Thompson, Wilderness Prophet Now for the Killing: Edwyn Sandys 'Three Musketeers of the Pen' A Solomon of Little Syria The Bewitchment of Charles G.D. Roberts 5 Exodus Lost Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index
About the author
Nick Mount is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
