Inventing Sam Slick : : A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton / / Richard Davies.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Davies, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Thomas 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: 'This is my own, my native land' -- Chapter 1. Alias 'Sam Slick' -- Chapter 2. Yankee Heritage -- Chapter 3. King's College and Marriage -- Chapter 4. Annapolis Royal and the General Description -- Chapter 5. The Legislature and the 'Club' -- Chapter 6. Historian and Judge -- Chapter 7. Clifton and The Clockmaker -- Chapter 8. A Tradition of Yankee Humour -- Chapter 9. Career in Crisis -- Part Two: A Literary Career -- Chapter 10. The Greatest Lion in London -- Chapter 11. Moving in the Best of Circles -- Chapter 12. Bubbles of Canada and Reply to the Earl of Durham -- Chapter 13. Microcosms: Clifton and the Great Western -- Chapter 14. More Clockmaking and More New Relations -- Chapter 15. The Death of Louisa -- Chapter 16. A Three-Hundred-Year-Old Tory Returned to Life -- Chapter 17. The Death of Tom Jr -- Chapter 18. Stepping Out of the Frame -- Chapter 19. Sam Slick Rides Again -- Chapter 20. End of an Era -- Part Three: Sam Slick in England -- Chapter 21. A New Career -- Chapter 22. A Hectic Social Life -- Chapter 23. Member of Parliament for Launceston -- Chapter 24. The Clash with Gladstone -- Chapter 25. The Canada Land and Emigration Company -- Chapter 26. Launceston, Parliament, and Isleworth -- Chapter 27. The Banting System -- Chapter 28. The Last of the Tories -- Appendix: Haliburton Family Tree -- Notes -- Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Illustration Credits -- Index