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Author:

Wyile, Herb, 1961-

Title:

Speaking in the past tense : Canadian novelists on writing historical fiction / Herb Wyile.

Publisher:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Vanderhaeghe, Guy,--1951---Interviews.
Wiebe, Rudy Henry,--1934---Interviews.
Urquhart, Jane--Interviews.
Johnston, Wayne--Interviews.
Clarke, George Elliott--Interviews.
Sweatman, Margaret--Interviews.
Stenson, Fred,--1951---Interviews.
Boyden, Joseph,--1966---Interviews.
Robertson, Heather,--1942---Interviews.
Wharton, Thomas,--1963---Interviews.
Crummey, Michael,--1965---Interviews.
Historical fiction, Canadian--History and criticism.
Historical fiction, Canadian--Authorship.
Novelists, Canadian--Interviews.
Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Canada--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Making history : Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Walking where his feet can walk : Rudy Wiebe -- Confessions of a historical geographer : Jane Urquhart -- An afterlife endlessly revised : Wayne Johnston -- "We have to recover their bodies" : George Elliott Clarke -- Ghosts are our allies : Margaret Sweatman -- History "from the workingman's end of the telescope" : Fred Stenson -- Pushing out the poison : Joseph Boyden -- In the lair of the minotaur : Heather Robertson -- The iceman cometh across : Thomas Wharton -- The living haunt the dead : Michael Crummey.

Summary:

Consists of interviews with eleven Canadian historical novelists.

ISBN:

9780889205116
0889205116

OCLC:

(OCoLC)85787269

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)