Material Cultures in Canada - Paperback

by Thomas Allen (Editor), Jennifer Blair (Editor)

This book presents the diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, it features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each examining a different object, including the beaver, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body.

Author Biography

Thomas Allen is an associate professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2008). His research concerns the cultural history of time, especially in relation to material culture.A specialist in Canadian literature, Jennifer Blair teaches in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Her research centres on early Canadian literature, with a focus on architecture and the circulation of information in colonial Canada. She has published essays in Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Feminist Media Studies.