![]() Its setting was western, its technique ahead of its time. The history of As For Me and My House is in many ways the history of English-Canadian culture the factors that kept it obscure have played a part in any number of cultural developments throughout the nation's past. The collection charts the fortunes of one work of fiction and in the process sheds much light on the development of English-Canadian literature as a whole. David Stouck has brought together some of the most important contributions of the vast body of critical writing on Ross's novel. Now, exactly a half-century after it first appeared in 1941, it has become a Canadian classic, the subject of more critical discussion and debate than any other single work of Canadian fiction. ![]() ![]() Sinclair Ross's novel As For Me and My House was by all publishing standards a failure for the first thirty years of its life. ![]()
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