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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... notes in his paper , was " just about the only Canadian writer who was a household name in the nineteenth century . " He has been called the father of American humour and his influence on Mark Twain , for example , has been frequently ...
... notes in his paper , was " just about the only Canadian writer who was a household name in the nineteenth century . " He has been called the father of American humour and his influence on Mark Twain , for example , has been frequently ...
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... notes the way satiric authors manipulated their narra- tors and used their narrative structures to reach their objectives . Working in this tradition , Haliburton had a sophisticated audience that identified the social and moral ...
... notes the way satiric authors manipulated their narra- tors and used their narrative structures to reach their objectives . Working in this tradition , Haliburton had a sophisticated audience that identified the social and moral ...
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... notes to them . Two figures I have to mention , already well known to students of Haliburton , are Judge Peleg Wiswall and Abbé Jean Mandé Sigogne . They dominate Haliburton's correspondence in the eighteen - twenties . The relationship ...
... notes to them . Two figures I have to mention , already well known to students of Haliburton , are Judge Peleg Wiswall and Abbé Jean Mandé Sigogne . They dominate Haliburton's correspondence in the eighteen - twenties . The relationship ...
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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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