One of the most striking revelations of Anne of Tim Hortons is the parallel paths of contemporary Atlantic Canadian literature and historiography. The work Wyile surveys reinforces the conclusions of the Acadiensis school of regional history. This school—ably represented by such historians as E.R. Forbes, David Frank, and Margaret Conrad—has consistently challenged the myth of Maritime conservatism. Through their studies of such topics as the feminist movement in late nineteenth-century Halifax, labour disputes in the Cape Breton coal fields, and regional cooperation among provincial governments in the 1950s and 1960s, the Acadiensis school has shown that the Maritimes was not the home of an entrenched conservatism, and was instead often at the forefront of adopting radical solutions to social, economic, and political problems. This is a historiography with which Wyile is well acquainted, for although his is clearly a work of literary analysis, he has thoroughly grounded in the region's history his study of the representations of Atlantic Canada in contemporary fiction.... Anne of Tim Hortons is an excellent overview of the ways that recent English-language Atlantic Canadian literature has challenged the myth of the idyllic, antimodern region to which so many continue to adhere. Well written and engaging, this study provides a convincing account of neoliberalism's impact on Atlantic Canadian fiction that is thoroughly situated in the region's history and historiography. This is a welcome addition to work on the region's literature, and would be equally at home in classes on Atlantic Canadian culture and Atlantic Canadian literature.

Herb Wyile was a professor of English at Acadia University. His books include Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (2002) and Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction (WLU Press, 2007). He co-edited, with Jeanette Lynes, Surf’s Up! The Rising Tide of Atlantic-Canadian Literature (2008) and created the website Waterfront Views: Contemporary Writing of Atlantic Canada.

Table of Contents for Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction: “Now Our Masters Have No Borders”
Section One: I’se the Bye That Leaves the Boats: The Changing World of Work
2: Sucking the Mother Dry: The Fisheries
3: “Acceptable Levels of Risk”: Mining and Offshore Oil
4: Uncivil Servitude: The Service Sector
Conclusion to Section One
Section Two: “About as Far From Disneyland as You Can Possibly Get”: The Reshaping of Culture
5: The Simpler and More Colourful Way of Life”
6: Rebuffing the Gaze
Conclusion to Section Two
Section Three: The Age of Sale: History, Globalization, and Commodification
7: “A ‘Sea-Change’ of Sorts”: Newfoundland and Labrador
8: “A Place that Didn’t Count Any More”: The Maritimes
Conclusion to Section Three
Conclusion: Speculative Fiction for the Rest of the Country?
Notes
Works Cited
Photo Credits
Index