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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... 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 succeeded in pass ...
... 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 succeeded in pass ...
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... of Haliburton manuscripts at the Houghton Library , Harvard University . 1. Harmondsworth , Middlesex : Penguin Books , 1982 , orig . pub . 1973 . 4. The eight letters to Judge Peleg Wiswall of Digby Haliburton's Letters.
... of Haliburton manuscripts at the Houghton Library , Harvard University . 1. Harmondsworth , Middlesex : Penguin Books , 1982 , orig . pub . 1973 . 4. The eight letters to Judge Peleg Wiswall of Digby Haliburton's Letters.
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Frank Tierney. 4. The eight letters to Judge Peleg Wiswall of Digby , published in the Annual Report of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia for 1946 . These 76 letters constituted the corpus of Haliburton correspond- ence when I began ...
Frank Tierney. 4. The eight letters to Judge Peleg Wiswall of Digby , published in the Annual Report of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia for 1946 . These 76 letters constituted the corpus of Haliburton correspond- ence when I began ...
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... Wiswall helped Haliburton to a clearer notion of how he might describe the past and present state of Nova Scotia . Wiswall possessed great topographical and historical knowledge of the province and acted as a sounding board for ...
... Wiswall helped Haliburton to a clearer notion of how he might describe the past and present state of Nova Scotia . Wiswall possessed great topographical and historical knowledge of the province and acted as a sounding board for ...
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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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