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Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal

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Edited and with an introduction by David Staines
1986
Published by: University of Ottawa Press
Series: Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
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This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

pp. v-vi

Introduction

pp. 1-4

Riding Off in All Directions: A Few Wild Words in Search of Stephen Leacock

pp. 5-10

Leacock and Leahen: The Feminine Influence on Stephen Leacock

pp. 11-16

Leacock and Understanding Canada

pp. 17-22

Leacock and the Media

pp. 23-32

The Historical Leacock

pp. 33-50

Stephen Leacock, Economist: An Owl Among the Parrots

pp. 51-58

Imperial Cosmopolitanism, or the Partly Solved Riddle of Leacock's Multi-National Persona

pp. 59-68

Stephen Leacock, Humorist: American by Association

pp. 69-82

Religion and Romance in Mariposa

pp. 83-96

The Roads Back: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and George Elliott's The Kissing Man

pp. 97-106

Untestable Inferences: Post-Structuralism and Leacock's Achievement in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

pp. 107-120

The Achievement of Stephen Leacock

pp. 121-132

Stephen Leacock: The Writer and His Writings

pp. 133-160

Notes

pp. 161-170

Contributors

pp. 171-172
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