Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada ed. by Eva Darias-Beautell (review)

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Reviewed by: Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canadaed. by Eva Darias-Beautell Diana Brydon Eva Darias-Beautell, ed. Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. 243 pp. Black and White Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 hc. [End Page 152] This edited collection of essays derives from an international research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education with the participation of Canadian literature specialists from Spain, Canada, and the UK. The project explores “innovative approaches to the cultural and literary contexts of English Canada over the last forty years” (2). These approaches include multiculturalism, environmentalism, cultural studies, queer theory, feminism, and post-colonialism. Each essay handles a different set of questions, which, taken together, offer, in the editor’s words, “a tapestry of approaches to that Penelopianprocess of simultaneous dismantling an

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