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Roads to Confederation
The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone...
Magistrates, Police, and People
Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s-1830s), Quebec's 'Canadien' inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British...
Richard Jefferies
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
This book, a critical study of the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies, an English writer of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is an attempt to define the nature of Jefferies' contribution to English literature, and to isolate the more important and effective qualities of his work. Although...
The Rural Tradition
A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
'There is probably no single quality or characteristic – besides love of the countryside – that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc.,...
From New Peoples to New Nations
Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk...
None Is Too Many
Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category)
Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize
Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books
[This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior...
Canada and the Birth of Israel
A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine denied entry to Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror. Today there is a widely held impression that the...
In Gratitude for All the Gifts
Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Magdalena...
by Robin Healey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared...
Boccaccio's Naked Muse
Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2008
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The ‘Decameron’ Third Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Third Day. For each novella, a distinguished Boccaccio scholar offers...
by V. Stanley, III Benfell
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern...
by Salvatore Di Maria
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The theatre of the Italian Renaissance was directly inspired by the classical stage of Greece and Rome, and many have argued that the former imitated the latter without developing a new theatre tradition. In this book, Salvatore DiMaria investigates aspects of innovation that made Italian Renaissance...
Church and Sect in Canada
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1948
The need for a third printing of Church and Sect in Canada reflects the continuing interest in this pioneer study of the development of religious organization in Canadian society. It is one of three studies by Professor Clark; the other two, The Social Development of Canada and Movements of Political...