Thomas Hodd received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Ottawa (2006), with a specialization in Canadian studies. He has taught at l’Université de Moncton since 2010 and has published important essays on Victorian-Canadian writers such as Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and William Kirby, and on cultural movements of the period like spiritualism, theosophy, and the Fredericton School of Confederation writers. He is co-editor of a special issue on early Canadian literature for Canadian Literature (2012) as well as editor of a critical edition of Flora Macdonald Denison’s late Victorian-Canadian novel Mary Melville: the Psychic (2019). He is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming four-volume Routledge reference series Canadian Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.

• Introduction: A Bundle of Sticks 1 Stories of Experience: Non-Fiction 2 Romancing the Landscape: Poetry 3 Between the Page and the Stage: Drama 4 The Long Road to Realism: Prose Fiction Conclusion

Thomas Hodd received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Ottawa (2006), with a specialization in Canadian studies. He has taught at l’Université de Moncton since 2010 and has published important essays on Victorian-Canadian writers such as Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and William Kirby, and on cultural movements of the period like spiritualism, theosophy, and the Fredericton School of Confederation writers. He is co-editor of a special issue on early Canadian literature for Canadian Literature (2012) as well as editor of a critical edition of Flora Macdonald Denison’s late Victorian-Canadian novel Mary Melville: the Psychic (2019). He is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming four-volume Routledge reference series Canadian Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.

• Introduction: A Bundle of Sticks 1 Stories of Experience: Non-Fiction 2 Romancing the Landscape: Poetry 3 Between the Page and the Stage: Drama 4 The Long Road to Realism: Prose Fiction Conclusion