Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis by Linda Leith

Montreal was a hotbed of literary activity in the 1940s and 1950s, with Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes an international bestseller and Mavis Gallant, Brian Moore, A.M. Klein, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen among the many other writers making the city their home. With the rise of nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, English-language fiction from Montreal faded into obscurity and all but disappeared from the literary landscape for a generation. It has taken the work of many to create the conditions for the Anglo Literary Revival that took off in the late 1990s and is now in full swing.

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