The Thomas Chandler Haliburton SymposiumFrank Tierney University of Ottawa Press, 1. jaan 1985 - 172 pages Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked. His letters, his historical books, the Club papers and Sam Slick sketches are all included in these valuable and lively criticisms. |
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... Judge Peleg Wiswall whose knowledge of Nova Scotia past and present was an asset to Haliburton's History , and discloses additional facts about Abbé Jean Mandé Sigogne with whom Haliburton shared interests in political causes that ...
... Judge Peleg Wiswall whose knowledge of Nova Scotia past and present was an asset to Haliburton's History , and discloses additional facts about Abbé Jean Mandé Sigogne with whom Haliburton shared interests in political causes that ...
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... Judge Haliburton lived at Clifton.2 I believe that the second statement is very different from the first , and that the second is fundamentally wrong , because the present dining room was possibly not built until after Haliburton had ...
... Judge Haliburton lived at Clifton.2 I believe that the second statement is very different from the first , and that the second is fundamentally wrong , because the present dining room was possibly not built until after Haliburton had ...
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... Judge William Haliburton's death left vacant a judicial position for which his son applied and to which he was appointed at the early age of thirty- two . The appointment may have been partly motivated by the desire to have Haliburton ...
... Judge William Haliburton's death left vacant a judicial position for which his son applied and to which he was appointed at the early age of thirty- two . The appointment may have been partly motivated by the desire to have Haliburton ...
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... Judge Haliburton , the inimitable author of ' Sam Slick , the Clockmaker ' etc. living in his delightful country residence that rested on a bed of gypsum overlooking the smiling village of Windsor and the Basin of Mines . " Although ...
... Judge Haliburton , the inimitable author of ' Sam Slick , the Clockmaker ' etc. living in his delightful country residence that rested on a bed of gypsum overlooking the smiling village of Windsor and the Basin of Mines . " Although ...
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... Judge . During this time the house had been radically changed ; new dormer windows and a porch had been added . The flue was in poor condition and soon the roof was on fire . The flue has subsequently been reduced in height to disappear ...
... Judge . During this time the house had been radically changed ; new dormer windows and a porch had been added . The flue was in poor condition and soon the roof was on fire . The flue has subsequently been reduced in height to disappear ...
Contents
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Egerton Ryerson | 37 |
A Background Paper | 53 |
Haliburtons Literary Apprenticeship | 65 |
The Colonial Author and His Milieu | 83 |
The First Clockmakers | 93 |
Haliburton as a Historian | 103 |
Sam Slick and American Popular Humour | 123 |
Haliburtons International Yankee | 135 |
The Achievement of Thomas Chandler Haliburton An Assessment Panel | 151 |
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