LEADER 03739nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910782726103321 005 20230912152228.0 010 $a1-282-85111-X 010 $a9786612851117 010 $a0-7735-6167-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773561670 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713623 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284482 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228084 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284482 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261279 035 $a(PQKB)11781418 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141702 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285111 035 $a(OCoLC)929121256 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q04ghn 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331031 035 $a(DE-B1597)654531 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773561670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245358 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713623 100 $a19880222d1988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStephen Leacock$b[electronic resource] $ehumour and humanity /$fGerald Lynch 210 $aKingston, Ont. $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1988 215 $a197 p. ;$d24 cm 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-0652-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and an index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tThe Middle Way: An Introduction to Leacock's Tory-Humanist Norm -- $tBetween Satire and Sentimentality: Leacock's Theory of Humour -- $tSunshine Sketches: Mariposa Versus Mr Smith -- $tReligion and Romance in Mariposa - En Voiture! -- $tArcadian Adventures: The City of the End of Things -- $tBetween a Vault and a Dark Place: Religi on and Politics in Plutoria -- $tHumour and Humanity -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich . He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto 606 $aEnglish literature 615 0$aEnglish literature. 676 $a818/.5209 700 $aLynch$b Gerald$f1953-$01491190 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782726103321 996 $aStephen Leacock$93791427 997 $aUNINA