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Divining Margaret Laurence

A Study of Her Complete Writings

by (author) Nora Foster Stovel

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2008
Category
Canadian, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773533769
    Publish Date
    Aug 2008
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773534377
    Publish Date
    Aug 2008
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577480
    Publish Date
    Aug 2008
    List Price
    $110.00

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Description

Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children's and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.

About the author

Nora Foster Stovel is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta. She has published on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, Carol Shields, and Margaret Laurence, including Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings, The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields, and Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders.

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Editorial Reviews

"Stovel is arguably the pre-eminent Laurence scholar in Canada and has brought decades of scholarship to what may be considered the most comprehensive and definitive study of Laurence yet - considering the large number of writings about Laurence, it is su

"Stovel inserts such a prodigious amount of original scholarship and lively commentary into her exhaustive overview that even a small taste will almost certainly draw even the casual grazer into a full feasting." American Review of Canadian Studies

"Stovel's sensitive and intelligent construction discovers an important and breathtaking addition to Laurence studies." Great Plains Quarterly.

"This is the first book that ranges across all of Laurence's work - and does so intelligently and accessibly. Divining Margaret Laurence is sorely needed." Neil Besner, associate vice-president, International, University of Winnipeg

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