1st Edition

The Routledge Introduction to Victorian Canadian Literature

By Thomas Hodd Copyright 2026
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This study is a comprehensive overview of the literature produced in Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Whereas previous examinations of this fertile literary period have been discussed in the context of larger, more abstract terms like "early Canadian literature" and "19th century Canadian literature," this book offers a more narrowly focused examination of the kinds of... Read more

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

Biography

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.