Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and chair of American literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

An ambitious project ... a broad literary history which ... [is] an excellent research tool for younger students as well as more established scholars.... The breadth of the work along with the resources it provides makes it an important addition to academic libraries.

• Introduction: Writing a History of Literature in Canada - Reingard M. NischikAboriginal Oral Traditions - Eva GruberThe Whites Arrive: White Writing before Canada, 1000-1600 - Ian M. HigginsHistorical Background - Guy LaflècheLiterature on New France - Guy LaflècheColonial Literature in New France - Guy LaflècheHistorical Overview - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Colonial Literature - Gwendolyn DaviesFrench-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Literature, 1867-1918: The Making of a Nation - Tracy WareFrench-Canadian Literature from National Soladarity to the École littéraire de Montréal - Fritz Peter KirschPolitics and Literature between Nationalism and Internationalism - Julia BreitbachEnglish-Canadian Poetry, 1920-1960 - Lorraine YorkThe English-Canadian Novel and the Displacement of the Romance - Marta DvorakThe Modernist English-Canadian Short Story - Reingard M. NischikEarly English-Canadian Theater and Drama - Jerry WassermanFrench Canada from the First World War to 1967: Historical Overview - Ursula Mathis-MoserFrench-Canadian Poetry up to the 1960s - Ursula Mathis-MoserThe French-Canadian Novel between Tradition and Modernism - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Story - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Révolution tranquille - Dorothee SchollSocio-Political and Cultural Developments from 1967 to the Present - Sherrill GraceEnglish-Canadian Literary Theory and Literary Criticism - Caroline RosenthalThe English-Canadian Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism - Martin KuesterThe English-Canadian Short Story since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism - Reingard M. NischikEnglish-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Nicholas BradleyContemporary English-Canadian Drama and Theater - Anne NothofCanons of Diversity in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature - Georgiana BanitaLiterature of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis - Eva GruberThe Quebec Novel - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Prose Narrative - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Ursula Mathis-MoserOrality and the French-Canadian Chanson - Ursula Mathis-MoserDrama and Theater from the Révolution tranquille to the Present - Dorothee SchollTransculturalism and écritures migrantes - Gilles DupuisThe Institutionalization of Literature in Quebec - Andrea Oberhuber

Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and chair of American literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

An ambitious project ... a broad literary history which ... [is] an excellent research tool for younger students as well as more established scholars.... The breadth of the work along with the resources it provides makes it an important addition to academic libraries.

• Introduction: Writing a History of Literature in Canada - Reingard M. NischikAboriginal Oral Traditions - Eva GruberThe Whites Arrive: White Writing before Canada, 1000-1600 - Ian M. HigginsHistorical Background - Guy LaflècheLiterature on New France - Guy LaflècheColonial Literature in New France - Guy LaflècheHistorical Overview - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Colonial Literature - Gwendolyn DaviesFrench-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Literature, 1867-1918: The Making of a Nation - Tracy WareFrench-Canadian Literature from National Soladarity to the École littéraire de Montréal - Fritz Peter KirschPolitics and Literature between Nationalism and Internationalism - Julia BreitbachEnglish-Canadian Poetry, 1920-1960 - Lorraine YorkThe English-Canadian Novel and the Displacement of the Romance - Marta DvorakThe Modernist English-Canadian Short Story - Reingard M. NischikEarly English-Canadian Theater and Drama - Jerry WassermanFrench Canada from the First World War to 1967: Historical Overview - Ursula Mathis-MoserFrench-Canadian Poetry up to the 1960s - Ursula Mathis-MoserThe French-Canadian Novel between Tradition and Modernism - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Story - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Révolution tranquille - Dorothee SchollSocio-Political and Cultural Developments from 1967 to the Present - Sherrill GraceEnglish-Canadian Literary Theory and Literary Criticism - Caroline RosenthalThe English-Canadian Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism - Martin KuesterThe English-Canadian Short Story since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism - Reingard M. NischikEnglish-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Nicholas BradleyContemporary English-Canadian Drama and Theater - Anne NothofCanons of Diversity in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature - Georgiana BanitaLiterature of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis - Eva GruberThe Quebec Novel - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Prose Narrative - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Ursula Mathis-MoserOrality and the French-Canadian Chanson - Ursula Mathis-MoserDrama and Theater from the Révolution tranquille to the Present - Dorothee SchollTransculturalism and écritures migrantes - Gilles DupuisThe Institutionalization of Literature in Quebec - Andrea Oberhuber

Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and chair of American literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

An ambitious project ... a broad literary history which ... [is] an excellent research tool for younger students as well as more established scholars.... The breadth of the work along with the resources it provides makes it an important addition to academic libraries.

• Introduction: Writing a History of Literature in Canada - Reingard M. NischikAboriginal Oral Traditions - Eva GruberThe Whites Arrive: White Writing before Canada, 1000-1600 - Ian M. HigginsHistorical Background - Guy LaflècheLiterature on New France - Guy LaflècheColonial Literature in New France - Guy LaflècheHistorical Overview - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Colonial Literature - Gwendolyn DaviesFrench-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Literature, 1867-1918: The Making of a Nation - Tracy WareFrench-Canadian Literature from National Soladarity to the École littéraire de Montréal - Fritz Peter KirschPolitics and Literature between Nationalism and Internationalism - Julia BreitbachEnglish-Canadian Poetry, 1920-1960 - Lorraine YorkThe English-Canadian Novel and the Displacement of the Romance - Marta DvorakThe Modernist English-Canadian Short Story - Reingard M. NischikEarly English-Canadian Theater and Drama - Jerry WassermanFrench Canada from the First World War to 1967: Historical Overview - Ursula Mathis-MoserFrench-Canadian Poetry up to the 1960s - Ursula Mathis-MoserThe French-Canadian Novel between Tradition and Modernism - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Story - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Révolution tranquille - Dorothee SchollSocio-Political and Cultural Developments from 1967 to the Present - Sherrill GraceEnglish-Canadian Literary Theory and Literary Criticism - Caroline RosenthalThe English-Canadian Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism - Martin KuesterThe English-Canadian Short Story since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism - Reingard M. NischikEnglish-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Nicholas BradleyContemporary English-Canadian Drama and Theater - Anne NothofCanons of Diversity in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature - Georgiana BanitaLiterature of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis - Eva GruberThe Quebec Novel - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Prose Narrative - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Ursula Mathis-MoserOrality and the French-Canadian Chanson - Ursula Mathis-MoserDrama and Theater from the Révolution tranquille to the Present - Dorothee SchollTransculturalism and écritures migrantes - Gilles DupuisThe Institutionalization of Literature in Quebec - Andrea Oberhuber