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Speaking in the past tense : Canadian novelists on writing historical fiction / Herb Wyile.

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Consists of interviews with eleven Canadian historical novelists.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Wyile, Herb, 1961-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:	Vanderhaeghe, Guy, > 1951- > Interviews. Wiebe, Rudy, > 1934- > Interviews. Urquhart, Jane > Interviews. Johnston, Wayne > Interviews. Clarke, George Elliott > Interviews. Sweatman, Margaret > Interviews. Stenson, Fred, > 1951- > Interviews. Boyden, Joseph, > 1966- > Interviews. Robertson, Heather, > 1942-2014 > Interviews. Wharton, Thomas, > 1963- > Interviews. Crummey, Michael, > 1965- > Interviews. Historical fiction, Canadian > History and criticism. Historical fiction, Canadian > Authorship. Novelists, Canadian > Interviews. Boyden, Joseph, > 1966- Clarke, George Elliott. Crummey, Michael, > 1965- Johnston, Wayne. Robertson, Heather, > 1942-2014. Stenson, Fred, > 1951- Sweatman, Margaret. Urquhart, Jane. Vanderhaeghe, Guy, > 1951- Wharton, Thomas, > 1963- Wiebe, Rudy, > 1934- Historical fiction, Canadian. Novelists, Canadian. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Interviews.

Table of Contents:

Making history : Guy Vanderhaeghe
Walking where his feet can walk : Rudy Wiebe
Confessions of a historical geographer : Jane Urquhart
An afterlife endlessly revised : Wayne Johnston
"We have to recover their bodies" : George Elliott Clarke
Ghosts are our allies : Margaret Sweatman
History "from the workingman's end of the telescope" : Fred Stenson
Pushing out the poison : Joseph Boyden
In the lair of the minotaur : Heather Robertson
The iceman cometh across : Thomas Wharton
The living haunt the dead : Michael Crummey.