Research Catalog

Title

Professing English : a life of Roy Daniells / Sandra Djwa.

Author

Djwa, Sandra, 1939-

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.

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Details

Description

xii, 474 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Sandra Djwa has provided readers with an artefact: a cultural biography with a human face. Roy Daniells (1902-79), an English professor who taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba and finished his career at the University of British Columbia, was an outstanding scholar, teacher, and poet, and influenced at least four generations of students. Daniells was a key figure - a cultural analyst - in the consolidation of English as a discipline and the development of Canadian literature as a recognized body of writing and a legitimate focus of scholarship, interacting with major personalities of the era such as Earle Birney, Northrop Frye, E.J. Pratt, Sinclair Ross, Margaret Laurence, and A.S.P. Woodhouse." "Djwa's examination of his life is a personal story as well as a micro-history of literary studies in Canada. It is also the account of an individual who, struggling against a strict religious upbringing, turned instead to the devotional poets of the seventeenth century. In this biography, Daniell's life becomes a prism refracting aspects of the discipline: the old ties between religion and literature, the making of a professor, mentorship and the way it functioned, women in the academy, and changes in the discipline and the professoriate. His devotion to English studies and his unflagging encouragement of young Canadian writers and students make Daniells a key figure in Canadian literary scholarship. Thanks to this biography, he will receive the recognition he so justly deserves."--Jacket

Subject

• Daniells, Roy
• Daniells, Roy
• University of British Columbia > Faculty > Biography
• University of British Columbia
• English teachers > Canada > Biography
• Literary historians > Canada > Biography
• English literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > History. > British Columbia > Vancouver
• Canadian literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > History. > British Columbia > Vancouver
• Canadian literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• English teachers > British Columbia > Vancouver > Biography
• English language > Study and teaching (Higher) > History. > British Columbia > Vancouver
• English language > Study and teaching (Higher)
• English literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
• English teachers
• Literary historians
• Universities and colleges > Faculty
• Vancouver (B.C.) > Biography
• British Columbia > Vancouver
• Canada

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [443-451) and index.

Contents

The Beginnings: 1902-1930 -- Plymouth Brother -- Breakdown -- Rescue -- University of Toronto: 1930-1937 -- A New World -- Following the Path -- Love and Politics -- Europe -- A Narrow Circle -- Professing English -- University of Manitoba: 1937-1946 -- 'This Winnipeg!' -- 'The End of an Era' -- 'O Canada' -- Casting Anchor -- University of British Columbia: 1946-1960 -- Anatomy of a Department -- The New Head -- 'The Revolt of the Dukes' -- Developing English -- A Canadian Literature -- University of British Columbia: 1960-1970 -- The Lions' Den -- Academic Publishing -- University Professor -- Vancouver: 1970-1979 -- The River of Time.

ISBN

• 080204770X
• 9780802047700

LCCN

2002283658

OCLC

• ocm47689826
• 47689826
• SCSB-1252523

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library