The "Confederation Poets" and Victorian Aesthetics in Canada.

Readings:

• Bliss Carman, "Low Tide on Grand Pré"
• Archibald Lampman, "The City of the End of Things"
• E. Pauline Johnson, "The Cattle Thief"
• D.C. Scott, "The Onoondaga Madonna"

The literature of settlement

Readings:

- Susanna Moodie, from Roughing it in the Bush

- Mary Ann Shadd, from A Plea for Emigration

- E.J. Pratt, from Towards the Last Spike

Introduction to the course. Abridged because of administrative demands.

Readings:

- Anonymous, “Nathaniel’s Tilt” (1745)

- Anonymous, “Nova Scotia. A New Ballad” (1750)

- [Assigned but not discussed] Roch Carrier, “The Hockey Sweater”

Conclusions/review

Dionne Brand's Inventory

From Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves

Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Timothy Findley's The Wars (cont'd)