Catching The Torch Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses To World War I.

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers , Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground , Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen Massicotte's Mary's Wedding , and Frances Itani's Deafening , the book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that the Canadian nation was born in the trenches of t...