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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... larly interested in writers of the Maritime provinces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has written extensively on narrative verse satire . Introduction The strong creative pulse of modern Canadian writers attracts xii.
... larly interested in writers of the Maritime provinces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has written extensively on narrative verse satire . Introduction The strong creative pulse of modern Canadian writers attracts xii.
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... 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 reveals 8 two roofs with an air space between them . Haliburton's "Clifton ...
... 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 reveals 8 two roofs with an air space between them . Haliburton's "Clifton ...
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... province that has been passed by , published in London in 1912 . Beckles Willson returned in 1913 to rent the property and not only changed the interior by the repair to the fire damage referred to above , but also greatly changed the ...
... province that has been passed by , published in London in 1912 . Beckles Willson returned in 1913 to rent the property and not only changed the interior by the repair to the fire damage referred to above , but also greatly changed the ...
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... province . There is a tinge of Gothic Revival in two alcoves in the parlour , a delightful comment on the use of a new style ; this feature is hidden from general view . The house of another eminent Nova Scotian lawyer , Sir Adams ...
... province . There is a tinge of Gothic Revival in two alcoves in the parlour , a delightful comment on the use of a new style ; this feature is hidden from general view . The house of another eminent Nova Scotian lawyer , Sir Adams ...
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... Provincial Toryism . Most ( but not all ) of these letters are now at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia . 3. The 54 letters , the correspondence between Haliburton and his English publisher Richard Bentley , published by W. H. Bond in ...
... Provincial Toryism . Most ( but not all ) of these letters are now at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia . 3. The 54 letters , the correspondence between Haliburton and his English publisher Richard Bentley , published by W. H. Bond 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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