Bringing to light an extensive archive, Feminist Literary Magazines offers the first in-depth examination of Canada’s feminist literary magazines and editorial collectives.
A thorough and ground-breaking examination of thirteenth-century skaldic verse, linking the poets of the time with leading families and with ecclesiastical and secular learning.
In The Poetry of Place, Louisa Mackenzie reveals and analyzes the cultural history of French paysage through her study of lyric poetry and its connections with landscape painting, cartography, and land use history.
Stephen Schloesser's Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery.
The tenth anniversary edition of The Slow Professor expands on its original mission to resist the culture of speed in academia with an insightful new introduction and inspiring reflections from scholars applying Slow principles in their work and lives.
Dangerous Creations investigates a previously unidentified genre of nineteenth-century French literature – the inventor novel – where science fiction, naturalism, and decadence intersect.
Rewriting the Canadian Constitution explores whether – and how – the Canadian Constitution should be changed. In doing so, it challenges prevailing approaches and asks how Canada’s Constitution should be understood, interpreted and lived in the future.
Until 1855, slanderous language was punishable in Britain's ecclesiastical courts. Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. The evidence of the witnesses supplies fascinating details of day-to-day events.
Postcolonial Resistance seeks to redefine resistance to reconnect an analysis of colonial discourse to material structures of colonial exploitation and inequality.
Examines the 'knowledge network' whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas.
In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, G rard Bouchard conceptualizes myths as vessels of sacred values that transcend the division between primitive and modern. These vessels become so influential as to make an indelible impression on people's minds.
Who Gives? Who Gets? Who Wins? follows campaign money in Canada’s local races to reveal who can afford to run, who funds them, and whether finance rules truly level the democratic playing field.