In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders.

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1. White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada
2. The Loyalist Brother: Fratricide and Civility in English Canada’s Story of Origins
3. The Enterprising Scottish Orphan: Inventing the Properties of English Canadian Character
4. The Muscular Christian in Fictions of the Canadian West
5. The Maturing Colonial Son: Manning the Borders of White Civility
6. Wry Civility

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Daniel Coleman is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.