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Professor Pugh traces the use of the recurring characters device and unravels its complexities over the whole of Balzac's career by providing a year-by-year account of the author's struggles between 1829 and 1847 to unify his fictional world of some 3,000 characters.

While featuring different approaches, Nation and History serves as the most comprehensive work on Polish historiography written in English.

A comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by plant shutdowns in the Great Lakes Region, and an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own displacement.

Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.

Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.

The history of eight Canadian business faculties are examined through a series of essays in their search for professional legitimacy.

By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and feminist theory, Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths offers new readings of Shakespeare's early comedies.

Officially extinct, Sinixt Interior Salish living in diaspora work to protect their history, identity, and social memory through the protection of, and the act of reburial at, an ancient burial ground.

It is an authoritative and lively history of the Law Society of Upper Canada and of Ontario's lawyers, from the founding of the Society by ten lawyers in 1797, to the crises which shook the society and the legal profession in the mid-1990s.

Herbert Norman's distinguished life and tragic death, in April 1957, are recalled and examined in this book by scholars and diplomats from four countries-the United States, Japan, Canada, and Britain.

This book continues and carries a stage further Professor Dobson's pioneering researches into the nature and development of Classical Chinese. He has here compared a Late Archaic text with a paraphrase of that text written in Late Han Chinese.

This is the fourth volume in Professor Dobson's pioneering researches into the nature and development of Classical Chinese. Book of Songs uniquely provides data from the 9th and 8th centuries B.C.

A fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man.

This is a practical reference volume for the student or practising physician to aid him in the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of allergy in children. It is based on procedures used at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

This is a readable and perceptive biography of the exuberant and powerful politician Frederick Gardiner who captured the public imagination of Toronto and created a legend around himself during his lifetime.

In 1961 the Royal Society annual session topic was an especially vital issue, the population explosion, and this volume, based on the papers given at the meeting, has much valuable information and many pertinent and provocative comments on this phenomenon particularly as it affects Canada.

These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism.

Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

The essays included in this volume are concerned with assessing Newton's contribution to the thought of others. They explore all aspects of the conceptual background-historical, philosophical, and narrowly methodological-and examine questions that developed in the wake of Newton's science.

This biography of Sir Guy Carleton was first published in the famous Makers of Canada series in 1907, and re-issued in 1926 with supplementary notes incorporating later research by A.L. Burt.

In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.

In manifestos, poems, articles, and theatre pieces Bourassa examines the nature of Quebec surrealism and its international context.

Bond traces the development and decline of interest in the homilies both as aids for preachers and as statements of reformed doctrine. In addition he analyses the themes, organizations, and styles of the homilies presented.

This book, sponsored by the Women's Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, is a discussion of Lesya Ukrainka's life and works and includes selected translations.

This book has a twofold meaning - that of a political novel, and that of the portrayal of a great love and a religious drama.' One of the most interesting Canadian novels of the period 1880 to 1920, it depicts conditions in Canada during an era when the country was in a state of transition.

This comprehensive analysis of permafrost-its origin, definition, and occurrence, and the effect it has on industry and agriculture-is an invaluable to the growing number of people working in the north and to those interested in its development.

Characterization of the Electrical Environment is a current reference on the design factors required to ensure reliable performance of communication facilities under field operating conditions.

This is a Canadian temperance novel which traces a man's downfall, degradation, and eventual victory of alcohol. A reproduction of the painting 'Guilty' by Stuart Taggart is used as a frontispiece.

This volume records the achievements of forty years of medical research, giving direct and easy access to over sixty of Dr. Best's original important research papers in the fields particularly of insulin, heparin, and choline.

The author has attempted to cover the vocabulary of the whole corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse and make the word-list as broadly useful as possible for the general student of Anglo-Saxon literature.