Bibliography

Cameron, Elspeth. "Hugh MacLennan: An Annotated Bibliography." In The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, edited by Robert Lecker and Jack David, pp. 103-53. Downsview, Ontario: ECW Press, 1979.

Lists books, essays, and reviews by MacLennan as well as citations and annotations for criticism on his works.

Biography

Cameron, Elspeth. Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981, 426 p.

Traces MacLennan's life and artistic development, with a chapter devoted to each novel.

Criticism

Bartlett, Donald R. "MacLennan and Yeats." Canadian Literature, No. 89 (Summer 1981): 74-84.

Remarks on the "Yeatsian overtones" in Return of the Sphinx.

Cameron, Elspeth. "MacLennan's Sphinx: Critical Reception & Oedipal Origins." Journal of Canadian Fiction 30 (1980): 141-59.

Discusses the critical reception of Return of the Sphinx and the books that influenced the novel's conception.

Daniells, Roy. "Literature: Poetry and the Novel." In The Culture of Contemporary Canada, edited by Julian Park, pp. 1-80. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1957.

Overview of Canadian literature in which Daniells comments on The Precipice and praises MacLennan for identifying "religion and not the class struggle as our chief problem and the true enigma of our society."

Davis, Marilyn J. "Fathers and Sons." Canadian Literature, No. 58 (Autumn 1973): 39-50.

Focuses on the theme of Calvinist guilt in MacLennan's Each Man's Son.

Goetsch, Paul. "Too Long to the Courtly Muses: Hugh MacLennan as a Contemporary Writer." Canadian Literature, No. 10 (Autumn 1961): 19-31.

Examines MacLennan's early novels, focusing on his treatment of nationalism, history, and motive.

Hyman, Roger. "Too Many Voices, Too Many Times: Hugh MacLennan's Unfulfilled Ambitions." Queen's Quarterly 89, No. 2 (Summer 1982): 313-24.

Discusses the critical reception of Voices in Time and states that the futurist structure of the novel "is the ideal form for the worst of MacLennan's didactic excesses."

Hyman, Roger Leslie. "Hugh MacLennan: His Art, His Society and His Critics." Queen's Quarterly 82, No. 4 (Winter 1975): 515-72.

Thematic analysis of MacLennan's novels, focusing on his depiction of Canadian character and identity.

Jones, D. G. Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970, 197 p.

Comments on Each Man's Son, The Return of the Sphinx, and The Watch That Ends the Night in the context of Canadian literature.

Journal of Canadian Studies 14, No. 4 (Winter 1979–80): 3-121.

Special issue devoted to MacLennan.

MacDonald, Larry. "Psychologism and the Philosophy of Progress: The Recent Fiction of MacLennan, Davies and Atwood." Studies in Canadian Literature 9, No. 2 (1984): 121-43.

Examines the theme of political and social unrest in works by Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, and in MacLennan's Return of the Sphinx and Voices in Time.

MacLulich, T. D. Hugh MacLennan. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983, 142 p.

Biographical and critical survey.

Magee, William H. "Trends in the Recent English-Canadian Novel." Culture X (1949): 29-42.

Remarks briefly on the distinctly Canadian themes in Barometer Rising and Two Solitudes.

Tallman, Warren. "Wolf in the Snow, Part One: Four Windows on to Landscapes." Canadian Literature, No. 5 (Summer 1960): 7-20.

Comments on the depiction of Canadian life in Each Man's Son and four other novels by different authors.

Woodcock, George. Hugh MacLennan. Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969, 121 p.

Examines MacLennan's essays and novels, arguing that the nonfiction works are "statements on life" and that the fictional writings are openly didactic.

―――――――. "A Nation's Odyssey: The Novels of Hugh MacLennan." In Odysseus Ever Returning, pp. 12-23. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970.

Remarks on the nationalist themes of MacLennan's novels.

―――――――. Introducing Hugh MacLennan's "Barometer Rising." Toronto: ECW Press, 1989, 75 p.

Detailed analysis of Barometer Rising, covering the novel's critical reception, themes, and structure.

Zezulka, Joseph. "MacLennan's Defeated Pilgrim: A Perspective on Return of the Sphinx." Journal of Canadian Fiction IV, No. 1 (1975): 121-31.

Discusses the human dilemma and crisis in Western history depicted in Return of the Sphinx and The Watch That Ends the Night.

Interviews

Cameron, Donald. "Hugh MacLennan: The Tennis Racket Is an Antelope Bone." In Conversations with Canadian Novelists, pp. 130-48. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1973.

Discussion of MacLennan's novels, focusing on theme.

Twigg, Alan. "Hugh MacLennan: Patricius." In For Openers: Conversations with 24 Canadian Writers, pp. 83-96. Madiera Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing, 1981.

Discusses MacLennan's career, influences, and the inspiration for several of his works.