English Studies in Canada, 1945–1991: A Handlist

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN CANADA, 1945-1991: A HANDLIST HEATHER MURRAY University of Toronto JL HEfollowing is a handlist of works pertaining to English studies in Canada after 1945. It follows “English Studies in Canada to 1945: A Bibliographic Essay” (English Studies in Canada 17.4 [Dec. 1991]: 437-67), and provides a short supplement to that earlier piece. The first piece covers material per­ taining to the debates, curricular developments, and key figures of the early years of the discipline. (It is not a disciplinary history, but rather a resource guide for such historical work.) Here, a handlist format has been chosen (with annotations offered when the title is especially cryptic), on the as­ sumption that readers will have a stronger overview of the discipline’s recent past and will be able to make sense of the entries. The two bibliographies are distinguished by time period treated; for example, a recently-published work dealing with the nineteenth century would appear in the first “Essay.” The type of material included is similar for both pieces. All material is published, with the exception of one set of important oral history tapes. Re­ views are not listed, but review essays are when they deal with institutional issues; while material from commonly available reference sources is for the most part omitted. The only newsletters listed are the early issues of the Humanities Association Bulletin (which provided space for early ACUTE news); the ACUTE Theory Group Newsletter; and more recent issues of the ACUTE /ACCUTE Newsletter, which contain brief articles on professional concerns. Both Inkshed and the CACE Newsletter, omitted here, are sources of further information; the annual “Letters in Canada” issue of University of Toronto Quarterly is the most thorough survey of scholarship. Further biographical information is available from encyclopedias and from the “Bi­ ographical Sketches of Dead Fellows” that appear in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. “English Studies” is defined to mean the study and teaching of English language and literature in higher education, with the exception of English as a Second Language. Items pertaining to elementary and secondary teaching are listed when they contribute in a general way to examination of the dis­ cipline or provide information about professorial activity. (While Northrop Frye’s influence is especially extensive, I documented only his Canadian im­ pact, relying on Robert Denham’s bibliography to locate that material.) E nglish Stu d ies in Can ad a, 19, 1, March 19 9 3 Peter Allen and Margery Fee brought several items to my attention; and Stephen Bonnycastle and Barry Rutland kindly lent material from their files. Lisa Pottie has provided careful checking of the citations in this piece; and a minor research grant from the University of Toronto’s Office of Research Administration facilitated its completion. A d d e n d a : to 1945 Campbell, Sandra M. “The Canadian Literary Career of Professor Pelham Edgar.” Diss. U of Ottawa, 1983. Cowan, Ann Stephenson. “ The Canadian Forum 1920-1950: An Historical Study in Canadian Literary Theory and Practice.” Thesis Carleton U, 1974. Gerson, Carole. “The Canon Between the Wars: Field-notes of a Feminist Liter­ ary Archaeologist.” Canadian Canons: Essays in Literary Value. Ed. Robert Lecker. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991. 46-56. Harrison, G.B. “Department of English.” Queen’s Quarterly 51.4 (winter 1944): 378-89. Holland, Clifford G. “Canada Greets the Apostle of Culture.” Dalhousie Review 63.2 (summer 1983): 242-55. [Arnold in Canada] Klinck, Carl F. “Professor MacMechan, Native of Western Ontario.” Waterloo Historical Society Annual Report 40 (1952): 38-40. McCarthy, Dermot. “Early Canadian Literary Histories and the Function of a Canon.” Canadian Canons: Essays in Literary Value. Ed. Robert Lecker. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991, 31-45. Morgan, Robert. “The ‘Englishness’ of English Teaching.” Bringing English to Order: The History and Politics of a School Subject. Ed. Ivor Goodson and Peter Medway. London: Falmer, 1990. 197-241. [English and state formation in Ontario] Murray, Heather. “Making the Modern: Twenty Five Years of the Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression.” Essays in Theatre/ Etudes théâtrales 10.1 (Nov. 1991): 39-57. Tilson, Alistair. “Who Now Reads Spalding?” English Studies in...