Research Catalog

Title

• Sunshine sketches of a little town : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Stephen Leacock ; edited by D.M.R. Bentley.

Author

Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Bentley, D. M. R.

Description

xiii, 235 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Canada's answer to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock was a master of humor and characterization. His endearing portrayals of small-town life in Ontario and his memorable characters place him in the company of Canada's finest writers. This Norton Critical Edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town uses the text of the 1912 first edition, second impression, the only edition that takes into account the corrections made between impressions. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and textual emendations."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

• Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition

Subject

• Canada > In literature
• Canada > Social life and customs > Fiction
• City and town life > Fiction
• City and town life in literature
• Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

Genre/Form

Fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The text of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Editorial emendations -- Backgrounds and contexts. Genesis ; Reviews -- Criticism. Critical views. Leacock as a satirist / Desmond Pacey ; Ironist / Silver Donald Cameron ; Stephen Leacock : local colourist / W.H. Magee ; The face in the window : Sunshine Sketches reconsidered / Ina Ferris ; Charles Dickens and Stephen Leacock : a legacy of sentimental humour / Beverly J. Rasporich ; Stephen Leacock and the Canadian literary sensibility / Frank Birbalsingh ; From Stephen Leacock : humour and humanity / Gerald Lynch ; The cost of a drink in Mariposa / Glenn Willmott ; Responses of Canadian novelists. From Stephen Leacock / Robertson Davies ; Leacock and understanding Canada / Guy Vanderhaeghe ; Spend a few hours in Mariposa / Mordecai Richler -- Stephen Leacock : a chronology.

ISBN

0393926346 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005052328

OCLC

61240781

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library