LEADER 04484nam 2200565 450 001 9910467934303321 005 20210903005202.0 010 $a1-4426-2735-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442627352 035 $a(CKB)4940000000585658 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670068 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670068 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256582 035 $a(OCoLC)958571226 035 $a(DE-B1597)465523 035 $a(OCoLC)979781042 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442627352 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000585658 100 $a20160923h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInventing Sam Slick $ea biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton /$fRichard A. Davies 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) $cillustrations, maps, photographs 225 0 $aHeritage 311 0 $a0-8020-5001-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPart One: 'This is my own, my native land' --$tChapter 1. Alias 'Sam Slick' --$tChapter 2. Yankee Heritage --$tChapter 3. King's College and Marriage --$tChapter 4. Annapolis Royal and the General Description --$tChapter 5. The Legislature and the 'Club' --$tChapter 6. Historian and Judge --$tChapter 7. Clifton and The Clockmaker --$tChapter 8. A Tradition of Yankee Humour --$tChapter 9. Career in Crisis --$tPart Two: A Literary Career --$tChapter 10. The Greatest Lion in London --$tChapter 11. Moving in the Best of Circles --$tChapter 12. Bubbles of Canada and Reply to the Earl of Durham --$tChapter 13. Microcosms: Clifton and the Great Western --$tChapter 14. More Clockmaking and More New Relations --$tChapter 15. The Death of Louisa --$tChapter 16. A Three-Hundred-Year-Old Tory Returned to Life --$tChapter 17. The Death of Tom Jr --$tChapter 18. Stepping Out of the Frame --$tChapter 19. Sam Slick Rides Again --$tChapter 20. End of an Era --$tPart Three: Sam Slick in England --$tChapter 21. A New Career --$tChapter 22. A Hectic Social Life --$tChapter 23. Member of Parliament for Launceston --$tChapter 24. The Clash with Gladstone --$tChapter 25. The Canada Land and Emigration Company --$tChapter 26. Launceston, Parliament, and Isleworth --$tChapter 27. The Banting System --$tChapter 28. The Last of the Tories --$tAppendix: Haliburton Family Tree --$tNotes --$tWorks by Thomas Chandler Haliburton --$tIllustration Credits --$tIndex 330 $aThomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia. 606 $aJudges$zNova Scotia$vBiography 606 $aPoliticians$zNova Scotia$vBiography 606 $aLawyers$zNova Scotia$vBiography 607 $aNova Scotia$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJudges 615 0$aPoliticians 615 0$aLawyers 676 $aC818/.309 700 $aDavies$b Richard A.$0118823 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467934303321 996 $aInventing Sam Slick$92275799 997 $aUNINA