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Inventing Sam Slick : a biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton / Richard A. Davies.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Richard A., author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865.
- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler.
- Judges--Nova Scotia--Biography.
- Judges.
- Politicians--Nova Scotia--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Lawyers--Nova Scotia--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Nova Scotia--Biography.
- Nova Scotia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: 'This is my own, my native land'
- Chapter 1. Alias 'Sam Slick'
- Chapter 2. Yankee Heritage
- Chapter 3. King's College and Marriage
- Chapter 4. Annapolis Royal and the General Description
- Chapter 5. The Legislature and the 'Club'
- Chapter 6. Historian and Judge
- Chapter 7. Clifton and The Clockmaker
- Chapter 8. A Tradition of Yankee Humour
- Chapter 9. Career in Crisis
- Part Two: A Literary Career
- Chapter 10. The Greatest Lion in London
- Chapter 11. Moving in the Best of Circles
- Chapter 12. Bubbles of Canada and Reply to the Earl of Durham
- Chapter 13. Microcosms: Clifton and the Great Western
- Chapter 14. More Clockmaking and More New Relations
- Chapter 15. The Death of Louisa
- Chapter 16. A Three-Hundred-Year-Old Tory Returned to Life
- Chapter 17. The Death of Tom Jr
- Chapter 18. Stepping Out of the Frame
- Chapter 19. Sam Slick Rides Again
- Chapter 20. End of an Era
- Part Three: Sam Slick in England
- Chapter 21. A New Career
- Chapter 22. A Hectic Social Life
- Chapter 23. Member of Parliament for Launceston
- Chapter 24. The Clash with Gladstone
- Chapter 25. The Canada Land and Emigration Company
- Chapter 26. Launceston, Parliament, and Isleworth
- Chapter 27. The Banting System
- Chapter 28. The Last of the Tories
- Appendix: Haliburton Family Tree
- Notes
- Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780802050014
- 1-4426-5808-8
- 1-4426-2735-2
- OCLC:
- 958571226
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