Major - Double Agents: Canadian Literature before 1914

ENGL 2256  Double Agents: Canadian Literature before 1914

Prerequisites:

Three credits of 1000 level ENGL (excluding ENGL 1551 and ENGL 1552).

Antirequisites:

ENGL 2255

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course is an historical selection of Canadian literature from the colonial period to 1914. Course readings may include fiction, poetry, drama, criticism and nonfiction as well as other forms. Authors taught may include Susanna Moodie, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Pauline Johnson and Stephen Leacock. Students develop an understanding of Canadian “literary tradition,” while critiquing the processes by which this “tradition” is constructed.