Abstracts
Abstract
The Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal is one of the numerous associations founded in Montreal at the turn of the twentieth century. In offering its members the opportunity to circulate their work and receive informal feedback from other artists and writers, the club emerges as one of the forces in what Robert Darnton calls the “communications circuit,” one that creates a smaller, iterative circuit joining the author and the reader, the author as reader and the reader as author, before any work reaches the publisher. This article thus examines the workings of the Pen and Pencil Club and its mediating role between production and circulation of written texts. The Club’s members participated in nation‑wide debates on politics, culture, and art, and thus contributed in their own way to the development of a nascent Canadian cultural nationalism, one then communicated through the publication of their works.
Keywords:
- Clubs,
- associations,
- sociability,
- arts et letters,
- Canadian nationalism
Résumé
Le Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal est l’une des nombreuses associations fondées à Montréal au tournant du vingtième siècle. Puisqu’il offrait à ses membres l’occasion de faire circuler leurs oeuvres et de recevoir les commentaires d’autres artistes et écrivains, le club apparaît comme l’une des forces opérant dans ce que Robert Darnton appelle le « circuit de communication », force qui crée un sous‑circuit itératif entre l’auteur et l’éditeur, l’auteur en tant que lecteur et le lecteur en tant qu’auteur, avant même que l’oeuvre n’atteigne l’éditeur. L’article examine le fonctionnement du Pen and Pencil Club, ainsi que le rôle de médiateur qu’il jouait entre la production et la circulation des écrits. En prenant part à divers débats pancanadiens sur la politique, la culture et l’art, ses membres ont contribué à leur façon au développement d’un nationalisme culturel en émergence auquel la publication de leurs oeuvres a par la suite fait écho.
Mots-clés :
- Clubs,
- associations,
- sociabilité,
- arts et lettres,
- nationalisme canadien
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