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Enjoy 75 accounts of ghostly visitations--among them spirits from
the Great Chicago Fire, the curse of the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre, a spectral steamboat on Fulton County's Spoon River and
the wandering ghost of Abe Lincoln.
The 1867 Canadian confederation brought with it expectations of a
national literature, which a rising class of local printers hoped
to supply. Reforming copyright law in the imperial context proved
impossible, and Canada became a prime market for foreign publishers
instead. The subsequent development of the agency system of
exclusive publisher-importers became a defining feature of Canadian
trade publishing for most of the twentieth century. In Dominion and
Agency, Eli MacLaren analyses the struggle for copyright reform and
the creation of a national literature using previously ignored
archival sources such as the Board of Trade Papers at the National
Archives of the United Kingdom. A groundbreaking study, Dominion
and Agency is an important exploration of the legal and economic
structures that were instrumental in the formation of today's
Canadian literary culture.
The American frontier was a rough place where only the tough
survived. Gold and cattle were king, and many took up stealing the
former and rustling the latter. Billy the Kid, the Daltons, Jesse
James, the Reno Brothers and many more made their names in bandit
lore, ending their days at the noose end of a rope or the wrong end
of a lawman's bullet.
The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books were a landmark achievement in
Canadian poetry. Edited by Lorne Pierce, the series lasted for
thirty-seven years (1925-62) and comprised two hundred titles by
writers from Newfoundland to British Columbia, over half of whom
were women. By examining this editorial feat, Little Resilience
offers a new history of Canadian poetry in the twentieth century.
Eli MacLaren analyzes the formation of the series in the wake of
the First World War, at a time when small presses had proliferated
across the United States. Pierce's emulation of them produced a
series that contributed to the historic shift in the meaning of the
term "chapbook" from an antique of folk culture to a brief
collection of original poetry. By retreating to the smallest of
forms, Pierce managed to work against the dominant industry pattern
of the day - agency publishing, or the distribution of foreign
editions. Original case studies of canonical and forgotten writers
push through the period's defining polarity (modernism versus
romanticism) to create complex portraits of the author during the
Depression, the Second World War, and the 1950s. The stories of
five Ryerson poets - Nathaniel A. Benson, Anne Marriott, M. Eugenie
Perry, Dorothy Livesay, and Al Purdy - reveal poetry in Canada to
have been a widespread vocation and a poor one, as fragile as it
was irrepressible. The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books were an
unprecedented initiative to publish Canadian poetry. Little
Resilience evaluates the opportunities that the series opened for
Canadian poets and the sacrifices that it demanded of them.
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