Étude de l'édition littéraire anglo-québécoise de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à nos jours

The author provides a study of the main agents who marked the evolution of English-language literary publishing in Quebec, beginning with the microscopic First Statement Press, created by John Sutherland (1919-1956) in 1943 in Montreal, and ending with Conundrum Press, a graphic novel/comics-specific publisher founded in Montreal by Andy Brown in 1996, who moved the company to Nova Scotia in 2011. The first chapter of the author's thesis is devoted in particular to the professional trajectory of Montreal poet Louis Dudek (1918-2001), a central figure in English-language literary publishing in Quebec from the 1940s, and ends with a case study highlighting the editorial activities of DC Books, the last house founded by Dudek. The following chapters of the thesis in turn offer three studies from publishing houses - Vehicle Press, Villeneuve Publications and Conundrum Press - which the author asserts provides a global portrait of this Quebec industry, its highlights and the changes it has undergone over the five decades under review. The author also provides two appendices listing the main English-language publishing houses founded in Quebec during the time period under review, and a summary analysis of the statistics of French and English publishing compiled by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Master's Thesis

Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke QC

2008

146-xxxviii p.

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