The Canadian Shields: Stories and Essays
by Carol Shields
edited by Nora Foster Stovel
University of Manitoba Press, 2024
Cloth: 978-1-77284-083-4 | Paper: 978-1-77284-082-7 | eISBN: 978-1-77284-085-8 (epub) | eISBN: 978-1-77284-084-1 (PDF)
TOC
Cover
Contents
Foreword. "'A Soap Bubble Hovering over the Void':
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Canadian Shields, or How an American Writer Became an Award-Winning Canadian Author
Part 1: Carol Shields’s Previously Unpublished Stories and Essays
Stories
Protein Dust
A Message from Beyond
The Golden Boy, or Some Things Only Happen Once
Essays
Gifts
Christmas Interruptus
Coming to Canada
Did Anything Much Happen to You in the Fifties?
Writers Are Readers First
Books that Meant
The Reader–Writer Arc
The Writer’s Second Self
The Writing Life
Making Words/Finding Stories
My Back Pages
Women’s Voices in Literature
Women and the Short Story
The Feminine Line
The New Canadian Fiction
Crossing Over
Writers’ Gender Swapping
The Unity of Our Country
Address to University of Winnipeg Graduands
University of Winnipeg Convocation Luncheon Address
University Leadership and Social Change
Idealism and Pragmatism in Two Novels of Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Two Susanna Moodies
The Healing Journey
Part 2: Carol Shields’s Previously Published
Essays
At Home in Winnipeg
Living at Home
Sunday Dinner, Sunday Supper
My Favourite Place: At Home in Deepest France
Travelwarp
A Legacy of Stone
Others
What’s in a Picture
Rare Petals
A Purse of One’s Own
Heidi’s Conundrum
Parties Real and Otherwise
The Best Teacher I Ever Had . . .
The Visual Arts
A Delicate Balancing Act
Divorce
Introduction to Duet
Carol Shields’s Booker Prize Report
Foreword to The Stone Diaries
Afterword to Life in the Clearings
Introduction to Mansfield Park
Afterword to Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told
Afterword to Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told
Conclusion
Afterword: “Carol’s Haunting Voice”
Notes
Works Cited
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