This book brings together current scholarship and creative writing on transhistorical and
transatlantic crossings in Anglophone literary studies with a particular focus on Canada and
Britain. It revolves especially around the research fields Martin Kuester has helped to develop
over the years to explore the mutually enriching influences between British and Canadian
literatures. Individual chapters focus on Margaret Atwood Rohinton Mistry Robert Kroetsch
early Canadian autofiction Canada and the underground railroad transnational Canadian writing
David Chariandy's fiction the Great War in English-Canadian fiction as well as Anglophone
fiction by Norma Dunning and Tanya Tagaq. Further chapters centre on William Shakespeare's The
Tempest William Blake and on project-oriented and cross-curricular teaching. The book is
enriched by a series of poems and creative pieces on Martin Kuester and transatlantic
scholarship and writing including pieces by Ruth Panofsky George Elliot Clarke Mareike
Neuhaus Hartmut Lutz and Aritha van Herk.
