Literary Images of Ontario by W.J. Keith (review)

HUMANITIES 209 Keith. of Ontario Ontario Historical Studies Series. of Toronto Press. xiii 275. $18.95 paper offers no mere tour and and Setnelnellt first 210 LEITERS IN CANADA 1992 finds a sense of the distinctiveness of localities south-west, Munro/s snow-belli and in Hood's for in L"-,,, • .:nleA south-eastl as well as The Ontario James c01nb'incltlcms of class and sectarian allegiances, the small tOWll1 OUl=::'J;:;.~;;;:H.i::JI, might qualify 'as a national symbol' with its loose cOllltederatiOllS that maintain a reasonable but sometimes ",f1"'!I''t''Ot''ll C042Xlstalllce.' Somewhat more is the depiction of 'The Smaner Cities': the Salterton of undisguised Lower Town Ottawa of Norman Levine, and Frank Pad's Italian immipe ]~spectlve on Sault Ste Marie. ~VlnOl"10T\f"O as a senior Ontarian academic. For a new critic and literary historian in a postmodern age, this commission in a historical series is a to write about literature in the accessible and Keith's conservative For of the Lion (1987), the richly fabular account of Toronto's inter-war European immi- HUMANmES 211 Michael The Borders of The Fiction Richardson Universittv of Toronto Press. 236. $16.95 paper Richardson. The CQnadian or, The Prn1r1hpl"1I I-'IJlnIIPfl. A Tale of the Late American War. Edited Centre for Canadian Texts 9. Carleton 541. paper 1'1"1"_,"'''''''1'''1", and subterranean to call to the IVl"Stj~rH~S of UQOlpnO, and - an obvious Travels and Adventures in Kic:::hclrd,son' ...