Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada

W.H. New, a professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is widely regarded as the pre‐eminent expert on Canadian literature. Recently, George Fetherling, President of the Federation of British Columbia Writers, stated that if Canadian writers are a tribe, as writer Margaret Laurence famously quoted, then surely New is the tribal elder. As the tribal elder he has created an indispensable reference book that has filled an obvious gap in the study of Canadian literature.

New called on the expertise of over 300 academics for the contents of this encyclopedia and then orchestrated their contributions so that there...