{"product_id":"downtown-canada-9780802087201","title":"Downtown Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDowntown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Douglas Ivison and Justin D. Edwards  'An Ordered Absence: Defeated Topologies in Canadian Literature' Richard Cavell  Orient Dreams: Urbanity and the Post-Confederation Literacy Culture of Ottawa Steven Artelle  Postcolonial Historicity: Halifax, Region and Empire in Barometer rising and the Nymph and the Lamp Christopher J. Armstrong  La ville en vol \/ City in Flight: Tracing Lesbian E-Motion through Jovette Marchessault's Comme un enfant de la terre Barbara Godard  Cities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes Towards a Resident Reading (and  teaching) of Vancouver Writing Peter Dickinson  Lost in the City: The Montreal Novels of Regine Robin and Robert Majzels Dominic Beneventi  Inside-Outside the Glass City: Toronto, the Canadian Immigrant City Batia Boe Stolar  Divided Cities, Divided Selves: Portraits of the artist as Ambivalent Urban Hipster Lisa Salem-Wiseman  Rewriting White Flight: Suburbia in Gerald Lynch's Troutstream and Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the Dark Paul Milton  Dueling and Dwelling in Toronto and London: Transnational Urbanism in Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement John Clement Ball  Epilogue Justin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405226877271,"sku":"9780802087201","price":51.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802087201.jpg?v=1730489191","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/downtown-canada-9780802087201","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}