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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... later used by Mark Twain his combination of New England and South- western lore , his unique use of the picaresque tradition , and his encompassing of a whole range of American traits . Professor Royot traces Sam Slick's shifts from his ...
... later used by Mark Twain his combination of New England and South- western lore , his unique use of the picaresque tradition , and his encompassing of a whole range of American traits . Professor Royot traces Sam Slick's shifts from his ...
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... later investigators . In 1939 measured drawings were made of the house by the Provincial Govern- ment , which had just become the owner . A drawing shows only one roof thickness , whereas an inspection of the roof void at the same place ...
... later investigators . In 1939 measured drawings were made of the house by the Provincial Govern- ment , which had just become the owner . A drawing shows only one roof thickness , whereas an inspection of the roof void at the same place ...
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... later , probably after 1856 , was at the back ( fig . 3b ) . The scarcity of visual material makes definitive interpretation dif- ficult . Views of the back of the house are especially rare . A conjectural reconstruction of the sequence ...
... later , probably after 1856 , was at the back ( fig . 3b ) . The scarcity of visual material makes definitive interpretation dif- ficult . Views of the back of the house are especially rare . A conjectural reconstruction of the sequence ...
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... later . 3. At Annapolis Royal , Nova Scotia , Haliburton began to prac- tise law and to write his first book , A General Description of Nova Scotia , which was published in 1823. It was not a success and was rewritten and published in ...
... later . 3. At Annapolis Royal , Nova Scotia , Haliburton began to prac- tise law and to write his first book , A General Description of Nova Scotia , which was published in 1823. It was not a success and was rewritten and published in ...
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... later was the home of Lady Kennedy Erskin , a daughter of William IV . William is supposed to have helped lay out the garden . This is easily the largest and most grand of all the houses in which Haliburton lived . Haliburton revelled ...
... later was the home of Lady Kennedy Erskin , a daughter of William IV . William is supposed to have helped lay out the garden . This is easily the largest and most grand of all the houses in which Haliburton lived . Haliburton revelled ...
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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