A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

Acknowledgments

1. The Modern-Realist Movement: Contexts, Aesthetics, Origins
2. Manifestos for a Modern Realism: Canadian Bookman and The Canadian Forum of the 1920s
3. Raymond Knister: Revolutionary Modern Realist
4. The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 1: Prairie Realism Re-evaluated
5. Frederick Philip Grove’s Eclectic Realism and ‘The Great Tradition’
6. The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 2: Urban and Social Realism Reclaimed
7. Morley Callaghan’s Cosmopolitan Modern Realism
8. Modern Realism and Canadian Literature

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Colin Hill is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.