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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... century Canadian literature , including articles on such figures as John Hunter - Duvar and Lucy Maud Montgomery . ALLEN E. PENNEY is a member of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia ; he has a special ...
... century Canadian literature , including articles on such figures as John Hunter - Duvar and Lucy Maud Montgomery . ALLEN E. PENNEY is a member of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia ; he has a special ...
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... century authors and Canadian literature , and has written poetry and children's stories . THOMAS VINCENT teaches at ... centuries and has written extensively on narrative verse satire . Introduction The strong creative pulse of modern ...
... century authors and Canadian literature , and has written poetry and children's stories . THOMAS VINCENT teaches at ... centuries and has written extensively on narrative verse satire . Introduction The strong creative pulse of modern ...
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... century tend to be neglected . This is perhaps the condition of Thomas Chandler Haliburton who , as George Parker notes in his paper , was " just about the only Canadian writer who was a household name in the nineteenth century . " He ...
... century tend to be neglected . This is perhaps the condition of Thomas Chandler Haliburton who , as George Parker notes in his paper , was " just about the only Canadian writer who was a household name in the nineteenth century . " He ...
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... century including railways , bridges , and steamships . Stanley McMullin examines the Tory mind through the life and writings of Haliburton and Egerton Ryerson . Professor McMullin considers Haliburton's Tory vision - with its strong ...
... century including railways , bridges , and steamships . Stanley McMullin examines the Tory mind through the life and writings of Haliburton and Egerton Ryerson . Professor McMullin considers Haliburton's Tory vision - with its strong ...
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... century British North America . Working on the generally accepted premise that contemporary texts of the first series of The Clockmaker are probably corrupt , Bruce Nesbitt traces the publica- tion of the sketches in The Novascotian in ...
... century British North America . Working on the generally accepted premise that contemporary texts of the first series of The Clockmaker are probably corrupt , Bruce Nesbitt traces the publica- tion of the sketches in The Novascotian in ...
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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