Biography & Autobiography Literary
Stephen Leacock
The Sage of Orillia
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550222388
- Publish Date
- Apr 1995
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
As the foremost literary humorist of his day, Stephen Leacock enjoyed a huge international success, and his comic works (especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) still have the power to delight today's readers. But Leacock was also a professor of political science and economics; he produced 61 works in various fields; he wrote more than 90 scholarly articles. In Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia, James Doyle explores the life of this prominent and prolific writer.
About the author
James Doyle is professor emeritus of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Author of five other books, including The Fin de Siècle Spirit (1995), Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia (1992), and [http:www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/doyle.shtml Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada], he has contributed many times to scholarly journals, particularly on Canadian-US literary relations and political radicalism in Canadian literature.
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