The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium [held Apr. 27- 29, 1984 at the University of Ottawa

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. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. This title includes the ten papers that reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked.