Canadian literature -- History and criticism

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• The Conditions of a Colonial Literature (ca. 1897), by W. D. Lighthall (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People: An Historical Review (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1881), by John George Bourinot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature (c2004), ed. by Cynthia Conchita Sugars (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2009), ed. by Donna Coates and George Melnyk (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Drift of Pinions (Montreal: The University Magazine; London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, 1913), by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Fires of Driftwood (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1922), by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, illust. by J. E. H. MacDonald
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Marching Men: War Verses (Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1917), by Helena Coleman (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Miracle, and Other Poems (Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1913), by Virna Sheard (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Spun-Yarn and Spindrift (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. 1918), by Norah M. Holland (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Watchman and Other Poems (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Limited, 1916), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• White Lilac (New York: John Lane Company, 1922), by Beatrice Redpath (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Wood Carver's Wife (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1922), by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Hot Thespian Action! Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Robin Whittaker (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Canadian Children's Books, 1799-1939, in the Special Collections and University Archives Division, The University of British Columbia Library: A Bibliographical Catalogue, ed. by Sheila A. Egoff (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature (c2004), ed. by Cynthia Conchita Sugars (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• No Further Messages (North Webster, IN: Delirium Books, 2007), by Brett Alexander Savory (PDF at chizine.com)

• The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville (Halifax: J. Howe, 1836), by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville (based on an 1871 edition), by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Gutenberg text)
• Frenzied Fiction, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Literary Lapses, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)

• Energumen (science fiction fanzine, 1970-1981), ed. by Mike Glicksohn and Susan Wood (full serial archives)

• Canadian Poems and Lays: Selections of Native Verse Reflecting the Seasons, Legends and Life of the Dominion (Toronto: Musson, ca.1894), ed. by W. D. Lighthall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canadian Poets (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1916), ed. by John W. Garvin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Canadian Songs and Poems: Voices From the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada (Toronto; London: W.J. Gage; W. Scott, 1892), ed. by W. D. Lighthall (page images at canadiana.org)
• Selections From Canadian Poets: With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry (1864), ed. by Edward Hartley Dewart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices From the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada (London: W. Scott, 1889), ed. by W. D. Lighthall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Soul: A Philosophic Poem, by Stanislas Joseph Doucet (PDF at cimmay.com)
• A Treasury of Canadian Verse, With Brief Biographical Notes (London; Toronto: J.M. Dent, W. Briggs; 1900), ed. by Theodore Harding Rand (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Winter and Summer on Ontario's Shore (1861), by A Lady (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Northland Lyrics (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899), by William Carman Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, and Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, contrib. by Charles George Douglas Roberts and Bliss Carman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Selections From Scottish Canadian Poets: Being a Collection of the Best Poetry Written By Scotsmen and Their Descendants in the Dominion of Canada (Toronto: Caledonian Society of Toronto, 1900), contrib. by Daniel Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Carnival (first and second panels, with additional outtakes), by Steve McCaffery (page images at chbooks.com)

• Essays and Literary Studies (Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1916), by Stephen Leacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on The Follies of The Day, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• The Hohenzollerns in America, With the Bolsheviks in Berlin, and Other Impossibilities, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Humour of the North (Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1912), ed. by Lawrence J. Burpee, contrib. by Joseph Howe, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, William Henry Drummond, Sara Jeannette Duncan, James McCarroll, George Thomas Lanigan, and James De Mille (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Letter-Bag of the Great Western, Or, Life in a Steamer (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Model Memoirs, and Other Sketches From Simple to Serious (c1938), by Stephen Leacock (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• My Remarkable Uncle, and Other Sketches (1942), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Sawney's Letters, Or, Cariboo Rhymes From 1864 to 1868, by James Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stephen Leacock (anthology of stories, with biography and appreciation, from the Makers of Canadian Literature series; Toronto: Ryerson Press, ca. 1923), by Stephen Leacock and Peter McArthur
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Winnowed Wisdom (1926), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Bengough's Chalk-Talks: A Series of Platform Addresses on Various Topics, With Reproductions of the Impromptu Drawings With Which They Were Illustrated (Toronto: Musson, 1922), by J. W. Bengough (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Adventures Among Books, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Transition, 1400-1580 (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by F. J. Snell
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only
• Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature (3 volumes; London: Edward Moxon, 1841), by Isaac Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, by Walter Pater
  • PDF at victorianprose.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
• Books in General (first series; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in General: Second Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Common Reader (first series, 1925), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Common Reader, Second Series (1932), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (from "An English Garner"), ed. by Edward Arber and Thomas Seccombe, contrib. by John Churton Collins (Gutenberg text)
• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• De Libris: Prose and Verse, by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text)
• England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• English Literary Criticism, by Charles Edwyn Vaughan, ed. by C. H. Herford (Gutenberg text)
• English Literature for Boys and Girls, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
• English Literature: Its History and Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• From Chaucer to Tennyson, With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections From Thirty Authors, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A History of English Literature, by Robert Huntington Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
• Ideas of Good and Evil (second edition; London: A. H. Bullen, 1903), by W. B. Yeats
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (8 volumes; Buffalo, NY: Moulton Pub. Co., 1901-05), ed. by Charles Wells Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary and General Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley
  • all but Phaethon: Gutenberg text
  • Phaethon: Gutenberg text
• Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
• On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
• One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages, by Grolier Club, contrib. by George Edward Woodberry (page images at CMU)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Studies from Court and Cloister: Being Essays, Historical and Literary, Dealing Mainly with Subjects Relating to the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, by J. M. Stone (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in English Literature (London: E. Stanford, 1876), by John Dennis
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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