Reaney stands tall, majestic and timeless, too vast to becritiqued or concluded. This book attempts to peep into the Reaneyan world. It limits its scope to studying various social-psychological patterns as they emerge out of the communities and individuals Reaney projects in his oeuvres. The offers a comprehensive study of Reaney’s communities, individuals, socio-cultural trends, political upheavals and religious/sectarian feudsand the influence of these factors on thepsyche of his characters inhabiting the Southwest Ontario region in Canada. It will help the readers, researchers and scholars in offering fresh insights into critiquing Reaney’s works.

A translator, critic, poet, fiction-writer and editor, Dr. Rajshree Trivediis Associate Professor at the Dept. of English, M. N. Women’s College, Mumbai. She was on the editorial board of the book Geriatric Concerns in India: Past, Present and Future. She was the Executive Editor of Research Horizons, an international peer-reviewed journal. Currently, she is on the Review Panel of The Criterion, a UGC approved journal of English and Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal with a good impact factor. Her areas of interest are Metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Eco-humanities. Her paper “Nature Metaphors in Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain’’ was selected at The2014 Stockholm Metaphor Festival organized by the Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden and the visit was funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC). She has translated five books into English and contributed research papers to edited books and reputed journals. She was involved with the preparation of a module for the e-PG Pathshala course of UGC& MHRD on “Sociology of Indian Diaspora.” She is a Research Guide with SJJT University, Rajasthan and Referee for evaluating Ph.D. thesis for the Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Her poems, articles and translation works have been published in Muse India, Vahi, Indian Literature, The Speaking Tree and other publications. She is the recipient of the “Outstanding Poet of the Year” award at the prestigious Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Contest.