THE THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON SYMPOSIUM April 27-29, 1984 THE THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON SYMPOSIUM Edited and with an Introduction by FRANK M. TIERNEY REAPPRAISALS: CANADIAN WRITERS 11 University of Ottawa Press 1985 REAPPRAISALS Canadian Writers LORRAINE McMULLEN General Editor Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium (1984: University of Ottawa) The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium (Reappraisals, Canadian writers; 11) Held Apr. 27-29, 1984 at the University of Ottawa. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-7766-0109-1 1. Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865 — Criticism and interpretation — Congresses. I. Tierney, Frank M., 1930- II. Title. III. Series. PS8415.A45Z88 1984 C817'.3 C85-090149-9 PR9199.2.H34Z88 1984 © University of Ottawa Press, 1985 Design by Gilles Robert Lithograph of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, by E.U. Eddis, courtesy of the Public Archives of Canada, C6087 A CKNO WLEDGEMENTS Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the financial assistance which made the Haliburton Symposium possible and to the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, for providing the funds for publication of this volume. L.M. This page intentionally left blank h Contributors xi Introduction FRANK M. TIERNEY 1 Haliburton's "Clifton," at Windsor, Nova Scotia ALLEN E. PENNEY 7 Haliburton's Letters RICHARD A. DAVIES 25 In Search of the Tory Mind: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Egerton Ryerson STANLEY E. MCMULLIN 37 Stratagems of Satire in North American Literature Before Haliburton: A Background Paper THOMAS VINCENT 53 The Club Papers: Haliburton's Literary Apprenticeship GWENDOLYN DAVIES 65 Another Look at Haliburton and His Publishers Joseph Howe and Richard Bentley: The Colonial Author and His Milieu GEORGE L. PARKER 83 The First Clockmakers BRUCE NESBITT 93 X Haliburton as a Historian M. BROOK TAYLOR 103 Sam Slick and American Popular Humour DANIEL ROYOT 123 Haliburton's International Yankee DARLENE KELLY 135 The Achievement of Thomas Chandler Haliburton An Assessment Panel CHAIRMAN—DAVID STAINES MEMBERS: GWENDOLYN DAVIES, ROBERT MCDOUGALL, DANIEL ROYOT 151 CONTRIBUTORS GWENDOLYN DAVIES is a member of the Department of English and an Associate of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison Uni- versity; her work includes extensive publications on writers and literary activities in Maritime Canada. RICHARD A. DAVIES teaches at Acadia University; his publications include the collection of critical essays On Thomas Chandler Haliburton. DARLENE KELLY teaches at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan; her research interests include Gilbert Parker and Sara Jeannette Duncan. ROBERT MCDOUGALL, Professor Emeritus, Carleton University, has published extensively on Colonial and Confederation literature, edited The Clockmaker (1958), and published "Thomas Chandler Haliburton" in Our Living Tradition (1959). STANLEY E. MCMULLIN teaches at St. Paul's College, University of Waterloo; his interest in Canadian literature is extensive. BRUCE NESBITT teaches at Simon Fraser University and has special interests in Canadian and Commonwealth literature, textual editing, and bibliography. PETER PACEY is an actor who has performed with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and with companies across Canada; his home is in Fredericton, New Brunswick. GEORGE L. PARKER teaches at Royal Military College; he has pub- lished in nineteenth-century Canadian literature, including articles on such figures as John Hunter-Duvar and Lucy Maud Montgomery. ALLEN E. PENNEY is a member of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia; he has a special interest in the archi- tecture, construction, and evolution of Haliburton's home in Windsor, Nova Scotia. DANIEL ROYOT teaches at the Universite Paul-Valery, France. He has a special interest in American literature and the influences and relation- ships between American and Canadian authors. DAVID STAINES teaches at the University of Ottawa; he has published in British Medieval and Victorian, as well as Canadian, literature.