'First and foremost a writer of fiction': revisiting two Toronto novels, Hopkins Moorhouse's Every Man for Himself and Peter Donovan's Late Spring. Issue 2 (September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Will
• Is Part Of: British journal of Canadian studies. Volume 28:Issue 2(2015:Sep.)
• Page Start: 167
• Page End: 186
• Publication Date: 2015-09
• Subjects: Canada -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 971.007
• DOI: 10.3828/bjcs.2015.11
• Languages: German
• ISSNs: 0269-9222

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="de"> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Hopkins Moorhouse and Peter Donovan (or P.O'D.) were once familiar names in Canadian literature. In the first decades of the twentieth century both authors wrote a variety of sketches and stories for Canadian magazines and newspapers, and went on to produce well-received, popular, Toronto-set novels. The intervening years have seen both writers and their novels all but forgotten. This article revisits Moorhouse's <italic>Every Man for Himself</italic> (1920) and Donovan's <italic>Late Spring</italic> (1930) in light of an increasing interest in the depiction of cities in Canadian literature. Both novels can be seen as self-aware modern urban Canadian fictions, addressing the complexity of the cityscape alongside the overarching challenges of modernity to literary representation.</p> </abstract>