Table of Contents for Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada , by James Doyle Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Progressive Heritage in Canadian Literature: Beginnings to 1900 Chapter 2: Antecedents and Alternatives to Bolshevism Chapter 3: The 1920s: Communists and Fellow Travellers Chapter 4: The 1930s: Socialist and Other Realisms Chapter 5: The 1930s: Progressive Drama, Poetry and Non-Fiction Chapter 6: The 1940s: War and Post-War Chapter 7: The 1950s: Post-War to Cold War Chapter 8: After Stalinism: Decline and Achievement Chapter 9: The New Left Conclusion List of Works Cited Index
James Doyle is professor emeritus of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Author of five other books, including The Fin de Siècle Spirit (1995), Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia (1992), and Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada ], he has contributed many times to scholarly journals, particularly on Canadian-US literary relations and political radicalism in Canadian literature.
``The book is... eye-opening. Progressive Heritage presents a
broad-ranging coverage of literary radicalism that establishes the
field as undeniably present in Canadian writing....Progressive
Heritage is thus a long overdue book.'' -- American Review of
Canadian Studies, Spring 2004, 200409
``[A]n unprecedented recovery of books, poems, and plays written in
a communist or anti-capitalist bent. As a reader's guide,
Progressive Heritage is superb at contextualizing literary
works....Young scholars will be interested in this work because it
has its finger on the pulse of what was and still is one of the
most taboo subjects in Canadian culture: the silencing and
devaluing of voices speaking out against capitalist and corporate
hegemony....[S]cholars will welcome Doyle's counter history and
draw up a list of books and poems we should know more about....WIth
a sincere and engaged writing style, Doyle renders this version of
a radical tradition accessible to the uninitiated and
unconverted.'' -- Roxanne Rimstead -- Canadian Literature, 184,
Spring 2005, 200508
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