Herb WyileSpeaking in the Past Tense
Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction
Herb Wyile is a professor of English at Acadia University. He is the author of Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (2002) and Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction (WLU Press, 2007). He co-edited, with Jeanette Lynes, Surf's Up! The Rising Tide of Atlantic-Canadian Literature (2008) and created the website Waterfront Views: Contemporary Writing of Atlantic Canada.
Table of Contents for
Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical
Fiction by Herb Wyile
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Speaking in the Past Tense: English-Canadian Novelists on
Writing Historical Fiction
Interviews
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 Working Man'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
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