ESC: English Studies in Canada

Abstract:

Influenced by communications technologies of twentieth-century mass media, The Kite was the product of the conditions in which W. O. Mitchell worked. Contradicting the romantic notion of the creative genius working alone on his manuscript, the production history of The Kite exposes the book’s origins as a mediation among not only such forces as author, agent, and editor, but also the institutional forces of a national magazine, a public broadcaster, domestic and foreign publishers, and the Universal Copyright convention.