Floreat Plutoria: Satirical Fiction about McGill

Abstract

McGill has appeared in many kinds offiction but nowhere more strikingly than in satirical writing. Stephen Leacock, Regis Messac, William Weintraub, Mordecai Richler, Eileen Fitzgerald, Dany Laferridre, Brian Moore and others mixed reality and imagination to focus on McGill from unusual angles, in detail or just in passing. Drawing on personal blends of humour, affection, fantasy and criticism, each writer created a unique vision or glimpse of McGill and its students, staff and community. The results are as diverse as the attitudes and dreams which McGill evokes.