Brenda Beckman-Long, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic

Abstract

Even though Carol Shields’s work has received considerable attention, very few monographs have been devoted to her: Adriana Trozzi’s was the first one (Carol Shields’ Magic Wand: Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary, 2001) and the second and most recent one so far was Alex Ramon’s enlightening Liminal Spaces: The Double Art of Carol Shields (2008). Contrary to these, Brenda Beckman-Long’s Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic does not examine Shields’s work exhaustively as she leaves asi...