Unreal Country

"Wilmott's wide knowledge of English-language novels of early twentieth-century Canada - coupled with his informed understanding of modernism - makes Unreal Country a book we have needed for some time. It is a welcome and significant addition to Canadian literary studies." Donna Bennett, Department of English, University of Toronto "I applaud the author's eclectic and convincing theoretical scholarship, as well as his ability to interpret fiction as a practical critic." Brian Trehearne, Department of English, McGill University "This book offers a very interesting argument for a niggling question in English-Canadian literary history, namely why elements of the romance live such a long - if disfigured - life in realist fiction. It is also valuable for working both with canonized titles and with novels that were known in their day but haven't made the canonical cut . This strikes me as an elegant and trenchant feature of Willmott's historicizing method, and makes the book a welcome resource for continued work in Canadian literary history." Donna Palmateer Pennee, School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English, University of Guelph