Setting in the East Maritime Realist Fiction 1st Edition by David Creelman ISBN 978-0773524781 0773524789

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ISBN 10:   0773524789

ISBN 13:  978-0773524781

Author: David Creelman

David Creelman examines the works of Maritime writers between 1920 and 2000 and traces the ways these fictions have been shaped by the region’s history and culture. He shows that realism arrived comparatively late to the Maritime provinces and argues that the emergence of a realist style corresponded with a dramatic period of economic and cultural disruption during which the Eastern provinces were transformed from one of Canada’s most developed, prosperous and promising regions into one characterized by chronic underemployment and underdevelopment. The region is thus torn between its memory of an earlier, traditional social order and its present experience as a modern industrial society. These tensions are embedded in the Maritime character and have affected not only the lives of its people but the imaginations and texts of its writers. The stories of Thomas Raddall, Hugh MacLennan, Charles Bruce, Ernest Buckler, Donna Smyth, and David Adams Richards have been deeply influenced by the cultural shifts they have observed. Creelman also explores the works of such writers as Ann-Marie MacDonald, Lynn Coady, Nancy Bauer, Carol Bruneau, Alan Wilson, Leo McKay and Sheldon Currie.

Table of contents: 

1. Approaching the East: Transformations, Ideology, and Realism

2. Realism with Reservations: Frank Parker Day, Hugh MacLennan, and Thomas Head Raddall

3. Between Realism and Nostalgia: Charles Bruce

4. Conservative Laments: Ernest Buckler

5. Writing in the Dusk: Alden Nowlan and Alistair MacLeod

6. Hard Bargains: David Adams Richards

7. Breaking Silence: Smyth, Bauer, Wilson, Corey, Coady, Bruneau, and MacDonald

8. Diverging Streams: Fiction at the End of the Century

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