The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium

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Frank M. Tierney
University of Ottawa Press, 1985 - 157 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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Introduction
1
Haliburtons Clifton at Windsor Nova Scotia
7
Haliburtons Letters
25
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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