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Book William Dawson LeSueur  1840 1917  a Canadian Man of Letters

Download or read book William Dawson LeSueur 1840 1917 a Canadian Man of Letters written by Clifford G. Holland and published by San Francisco : Mellen Research University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Questions of Order

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  • Author : Peter Price
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2020-12-16
  • ISBN : 1487522185
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Questions of Order written by Peter Price and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new national entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.

Book Disciplined Intelligence

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  • Author : A.B. McKillop
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2001-10-19
  • ISBN : 0773568921
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Disciplined Intelligence written by A.B. McKillop and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-10-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the thought of Canada's major scientists, philosophers, and clerics - men such as William Dawson and Daniel Wilson, John Watson and W.D. LeSeur, G.M. Grant and Salem Bland - A Disciplined Intelligence begins by reconstructing the central strands of intellectual and moral orthodoxy prevalent in Anglo-Canadian colleges on the eve of the Darwinian revolution. These include Scottish common sense philosophy and the natural theology of William Paley. The destructive impact of evolutionary ideas on that orthodoxy and the major exponents of the new forms of social evolution - Spencerian and Hegelian alike - are examined in detail. By the twentieth century the centre of Anglo-Canadian thought had been transformed by what had become a new, evolutionary orthodoxy. The legacy of this triumphant intellectual movement, British idealism, was immense. It helped to destroy Protestant denominationalism, provide the philosophical core of the social gospel movement, and constitute a major force behind the creation of the United Church of Canada. Throughout the nineteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, however, the moral imperative in Anglo-Canadian thought remained a constant presence.

Book Archibald Lampman

Download or read book Archibald Lampman written by Eric Ball and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predisposition. His goal was not to transcend time, but to find redemptive meaning within it. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress explores the ways in which Lampman pursued this goal in relation to the three faces of time. Memory fascinated Lampman. He relished the “alchemy” by which the dross of past experience could be left behind and the gold preserved. Nature compelled his mind and emotions, and his clear-eyed observations of both countryside and wilderness settings gave rise to a self-evolved poetics of inclusiveness. In his celebrations of nature in all its manifestations, mild or bleak, he anticipated the work of iconic Canadian painter Tom Thomson and he forecasted the environmentalism of our own time. Progress for Lampman spelled societal rectification. By forwarding the cause of social betterment, one was part of a movement larger than oneself, and this expansion, too, was redemptive. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress is the first book on this foundational figure in Canadian literature to appear in over twenty-five years and the first thematically focused study. Combining close analysis with biographical context, it shows how Lampman’s oeuvre was shaped by his responses to his physical surroundings and to his social-intellectual milieu, as filtered through his stubbornly independent outlook.

Book View From the Murney Tower

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  • Author : Richard Allen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2008-06-15
  • ISBN : 1442692324
  • Pages : 593 pages

Download or read book View From the Murney Tower written by Richard Allen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history. A Methodist and, later, United Church minister, Bland's long career and widespread influence made him a leading figure in the popularizing of liberal theology, social reform, and the Social Gospel movement. He was also a man who struggled with the polarities of evangelical faith and worldly culture, and who sought a unifying world-view in the mentoring of Sir J. William Dawson in the sciences, George Monro Grant in public affairs, and John Watson in philosophy. The View from the Murney Tower is a two-volume biography of Salem Bland by Richard Allen, author of The Social Passion: Religion and Reform in Canada, 1914-28. This first volume begins with Bland's upbringing in the home of an educated industrialist turned preacher. It goes on to explore his emergence as a liberating mind and eloquent speaker prepared to support new currents of scientific and social thought, as well as to discuss their implications for Christian faith and life. Allen concludes this first volume with Bland's departure from central Canada for the west in 1903, by which time he had become a somewhat controversial figure amongst conservative evangelicals throughout the country. More than just biography, however, The View from the Murney Tower is also an examination of progressive religion in late-Victorian Canada, a time in which Darwinism and other Biblical, social, and intellectual controversies were profoundly affecting the growth of a young nation.

Book The Woman s Page

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  • Author : Janice Anne Fiamengo
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802095374
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Woman s Page written by Janice Anne Fiamengo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, journalism, politics, and social advocacy were largely male preserves. Six women, however, did manage to come to prominence through their writing and public performance: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeannette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison, and Nellie L. McClung. The Woman's Page is a detailed study of these six women and their respective works. Focusing on the diverse sources of their rhetorical power, Janice Fiamengo assesses how popular poetry, journalism, essays, and public speeches enabled these women to play major roles in the central debates of their day. A few of their names, particularly those of McClung and Johnson, are still well known today, although studies of their writings and speeches are limited. Others are almost entirely unknown, an unfortunate fact given the wit, intelligence, and passion of their writing and self-presentation. Seeking to return their words to public attention, The Woman's Page demonstrates how these women influenced readers and listeners regarding their society's most controversial issues.

Book Poet and the Critic

Download or read book Poet and the Critic written by Robert L. McDougall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1983-01-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters give a unique glimpse into publishing history in Canada and tell a human story of two Canadian men of letters, one in his prime, the other at the end of his life.

Book For a Working class Culture in Canada

Download or read book For a Working class Culture in Canada written by Canadian Committee on Labour History and published by St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History. This book was released on 1996 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seafarer, poet, labour activist, short story writer, Christian, philosopher, journalist, political economist, cultural critic and socialist -- Colin McKay (1876-1939) was all of these, a true working-class intellectual. Restless and inquiring, McKay left the South Shore of Nova Scotia as a boy; when he was not at sea, he lived at various times in Montreal, Saint John, Toronto, Glasgow, London, Paris, Halifax and Ottawa. From these centres, he wrote hundreds of articles for the popular press and for literary, political and labour publications. McKay's insights into a broad range of twentieth-century social, economic and cultural issues make a forceful, but until now unrecognized, contribution to Canadian intellectual history. For a Working-Class Culture in Canada rediscovers this author and his ideas. Ian McKay and Lewis Jackson have gathered more than 125 of Colin McKay's most trenchant essays, and Ian McKay's introduction and annotations set them into their intellectual and social context. Acadiensis Press and the Canadian Committee on Labour History have co-operated to publish this unique document in the history of the Canadian working class.

Book Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 2328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Book Subject Guide to Children s Books in Print 1997

Download or read book Subject Guide to Children s Books in Print 1997 written by Bowker Editorial Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 2776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Histoire Sociale

Download or read book Histoire Sociale written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Champlain and the Champlain Society

Download or read book Champlain and the Champlain Society written by Conrad E. Heidenreich and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Occasional Papers of the Champlain Society

Download or read book Occasional Papers of the Champlain Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock

Download or read book A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock written by Carl Spadoni and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording all of Stephen Leacock's published work from his first known venture into print in 1887 until 1998, this bibliography reveals the complexity and scope of the writer's enormous canon. Based on an in-depth examination of texts and archival documents, this resource is a research tool in the true scholarly tradition, a work that will interest Leacock enthusiasts as well as students and researchers of Canadian literature and social history. Organized into 10 sections, it describes all editions and issues; Leacock's contributions to books; his serial publications (in newspapers and magazines); reports of his speeches and lectures; lectures given; interviews; authorized adaptations; translations; recordings by Leacock; Braille, talking books and films; encyclopedia articles; and contributions in serial articles and books by others. In addition, there is a section for Lost Leads and a comprehensive index.

Book Honour and the Search for Influence

Download or read book Honour and the Search for Influence written by Carl Berger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzles over the 50-year survival of Canada's oldest national organization of intellectuals devoted to encouraging the humanities and sciences and honoring merit, in light of the considerable divisions within its ranks. Explains the friction between the scientists and the humanists, the natural scientists and the upstart social scientists, the English and the French speakers, and the early judges and clergymen with an avocation for scholarship and the modern professional academics. Canadian card order number: C95-932964-1. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library written by Public Archives of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: