When Canadian literature moved to New York / Nick Mount.

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When Canadian Literature Moved to New York is the story of these expatriate writers: who they were, why they left, what they achieved, and how they changed Canadian literary history.

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Copious original research characterizes this ground-breaking account of a pivotal generation of expatriate Canadian writers who lived, wrote, and published in the US, particularly New York City, from the newspaper and magazine boom of the 1890s to WW I. According to Mount (Univ. of Toronto), these writers not only contributed to key subcultures with antimodern biases but in some instances led the "therapeutic, outdoors, and new romantic movements" in North America during these years. Mount details the "networking" between these and other Canadian writers--both expatriate and nonexpatriate--that resulted in their prominent roles in US literary journalism in the prewar era. In yet another challenge to the landscape-based dogma of 20th-century nationalist literary criticism in Canada, Mount argues the paradox that the Canadian literary identity that emerged in the early 20th century was itself influenced by the expatriate, internationalist, and ultimately transnational perspectives of writers such as Bliss Carman, Ernest Seton Thompson, C. G. D. Roberts, and Palmer Cox and that this generation of Canadian writers not only bridged the period between colonial and national identities in Canada but now provide illuminating examples for the postnational condition of the current generation of writers. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty. D. R. McCarthy Huron University College