Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Short Story Index Reprint Series) - Hardcover

Leacock, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0836935950 ISBN 13: 9780836935950

Publisher: Books for Libraries, 1970

Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition ofSunshine Sketches of a Little Town uses the text of the 1912 first edition, second impression, the only edition that takes into account the corrections made between impressions. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and textual emendations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a concise excerpt onSunshine Sketches from the leading Leacock biography, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews from Canada, Britain, and the United States. "Criticism" is comprised of two sections. The first presents eight scholarly interpretations, by Desmond Pacey, Silver Donald Cameron, W. H. Magee, Ina Ferris, Beverly J. Rasporich, Frank Birbalsingh, Gerald Lynch, and Glenn Willmont, selected for their contribution to critical discussion of the novel. The second brings together responses to the novel by esteemed Canadian novelists Robertson Davies, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Mordecai Richler A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Review:

"Although we have long celebrated Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town as a Canadian classic, we have had to wait until now for an edition that would put the best possible version of the text into our hands. It is wonderful to have that at last. The additional framing this edition gives Leacock's great work is invaluable. This new edition of Leacock's pastoral comedy should provoke new critical consideration of a literary work that is far more complex and richer than we have so far noticed."--Russell Brown, co-editor of The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature

"Carl Spadoni's edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a delight to peruse. As a critical edition it brings to twentieth-century textual study what the CEECT series accomplished for nineteenth-century Canadian books. Beyond that, Spadoni provides new information and revelations throughout his introduction, enriching our sense of the complex place that Mariposa held in Stephen Leacock's imagination and the welter of critical response that his apparently innocent book has engendered. It's an important work, worth at least a year of shaves and haircuts in Jeff Thorpe's memorable barber shop."--Michael Peterman

"Although we have long celebrated Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town as a Canadian classic, we have had to wait until now for an edition that would put the best possible version of the text into our hands. It is wonderful to have that at last. The additional framing this edition gives Leacock's great work is invaluable. This new edition of Leacock's pastoral comedy should provoke new critical consideration of a literary work that is far more complex and richer than we have so far noticed." -- Russell Brown, University of Toronto: co-editor, The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature

"Carl Spadoni's edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a delight to peruse. As a critical edition it brings to twentieth-century textual study what the CEECT series accomplished for nineteenth-century Canadian books. Beyond that, Spadoni provides new information and revelations throughout his introduction, enriching our sense of the complex place that Mariposa held in Stephen Leacock's imagination and the welter of critical response that his apparently innocent book has engendered. It's an important work, worth at least a year of shaves and haircuts in Jeff Thorpe's memorable barber shop." -- Michael Peterman, Trent University

"Spadoni's edition deserves a welcome place on the shelves of Canadian literature specialists and general readers alike." -- Canadian Literature

"Although we have long celebrated Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town as a Canadian classic, we have had to wait until now for an edition that would put the best possible version of the text into our hands. It is wonderful to have that at last. The additional framing this edition gives Leacock's great work is invaluable. This new edition of Leacock's pastoral comedy should provoke new critical consideration of a literary work that is far more complex and richer than we have so far noticed." -- Russell Brown, University of Toronto: co-editor, The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature

"Carl Spadoni's edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a delight to peruse. As a critical edition it brings to twentieth-century textual study what the CEECT series accomplished for nineteenth-century Canadian books. Beyond that, Spadoni provides new information and revelations throughout his introduction, enriching our sense of the complex place that Mariposa held in Stephen Leacock's imagination and the welter of critical response that his apparently innocent book has engendered. It's an important work, worth at least a year of shaves and haircuts in Jeff Thorpe's memorable barber shop." -- Michael Peterman, Trent University

"Spadoni's edition deserves a welcome place on the shelves of Canadian literature specialists and general readers alike." -- Canadian Literature

From the Back Cover:

Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life. This series of humourous connected sketches about graft, high finance, religion, love and romance is, on one level, an intimate, comic portrait of town life and local politics. On another level, the narrative is a powerful commentary on the workings of community values and on Canada's place within the British Empire.

The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction, thorough annotation, a list of textual variants, and a range of contextual materials, including Leacock's stage adaptation of Sunshine Sketches.

About this edition

• Publisher: Books for Libraries
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0836935950
• ISBN 13: 9780836935950
• Binding: Hardcover