Introduction
Part One Early Colonial Writing (1620-1867)
Chapter 1 Frances Brooke
The History of Emily Montague
Chapter 2 Thomas Haliburton
The Clockmaker
Chapter 3 Susanna Moodie
Roughing It in the Bush
Part Two The Rise of Romantic Nationalism and the Formation of Regionalism
(1867-1914)
Chapter 4 The Confederation Group
Charles G. D. Roberts
Duncan Campbell Scott
Archibald Lampman
Bliss Carman
E. Pauline Johnson
Chapter 5 Stephen Leacock
The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias
Chapter 6 Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Part Three The Advent of Literary Modernism and the Boom of Regionalism
(1914-1940)
Chapter 7 Frederick Philip Grove
Snow
Chapter 8 E.J. Pratt
Come Away, Death
Newfoundland
The Truant
Towards the Last Spike
Chapter 9 Ethel Wilson
The Window
Chapter 10 Montreal Poets
A.J.M. Smith
F. R. Scott
A. M. Klein
Chapter 11 Morley Callaghan
Watching and Waiting
Chapter 12 Earle Birney
Can.Lit.
Bushed
Vancouver Lights
Chapter 13 Dorothy Livesay
The Difference
Green Rain
Day and Night
Part Four Post-War Modern Nationalism and the Break with Modernism
(1940-1980)
Chapter 14 Sinclair Ross
The Lamp at Noon
Chapter 15 Hugh MacLennan