Quill & Quire
[A] balanced and telling view of Leacock's double life as a successful academic economist and world-renowned humorist.
Quill & Quire
"A balanced and telling view of Leacock's double life as a successful academic economist and world-renowned humorist."
Book 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 a professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Yankees in Canada: A Collection of Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives, and North of America: Images of Canada in the Literature of the United States 1775-1900.
Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia FROM THE PUBLISHER
Stephen Leacock, Canada's foremost literary humorist, enjoyed a huge popular success in his time, and a number of his comic works, especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, still have the power to delight today's readers. But Leacock accomplished much more. He was also a professor of political science and economics; he produced 61 works in several fields; he wrote more than 90 scholarly articles. James Doyle explores both the private and public lives of this prominent and prolific writer. Highlights of this illustrated biography include Leacock's hardworking life as a child growing up on a farm in a "lost corner of Ontario"; the university years which resulted in a PhD in economics and political science from the University of Chicago; the motivations behind Leacock's dual commitment to social commentary and comic writing; and his conservatism - his ardent belief in the British empire - and how it affected his increasingly active career on the international lecture circuit.
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