Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Al Purdy’s Modern Scepticism 31
7. 2. Developing a Lyric Historiography 49
8. 3. Lyric and Regionalism: Challenging Histories, Part 1 67
9. 4. The Métis Uprisings: Challenging Histories, Part 2 91
10. 5. Inheriting the Past 114
11. 6. The “Edge of the Photograph”: Developmental Long Poems 133
12. 7. Sharing Authority 154
13. 8. Figurative Families and Feminism 178
14. 9. Indigeneity and Performance: The Fictions of Nations 203
15. 10. The Future of History 238
16. Notes 253
17. Works Cited 277
18. Index 309