Format:
XVIII, 644 S.
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Ill.
ISBN:
9780773541160
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9780773588646
Content:
Lorne, mother, and Methodism: Delta, Athens, and off to Queen's, 1890-1908 -- Visions, vistas, and Edith: Queen's University, 1908-1912 -- "These waste places of God's great vineyard": teaching and preaching in the Canadian West, 1909-1914 -- Wrestling with "the gods of the Methodist discipline": Victoria College, Toronto, and Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1914-1916 -- Orange blossoms, the cloth, and khaki: marriage, ministry in Ottawa, and army service, 1916-1918 -- Shining in the rural shade: spreading the social gospel in Brinston, 1918-1920 -- A new career and health challenges: Lorne Pierce and Ryerson Press, circa 1920 -- "On the hop": Lorne Pierce's uneasy apprenticeship at Ryerson Press, 1920-1925 -- A strike, a spat, and the spirit world: Lorne Pierce, E.J. Pratt, William Arthur Deacon, and Albert Durrant Watson, 1921-1924 -- "A patron of ... optimistic snorts and whoops": Lorne Pierce, Bliss Carman, Wilson MacDonald, and launching the Makers of Canadian literature series, 1922-1925 -- Up against the bottom line: an "annus horribilis" at home and at work, 1925-1926 -- "Lyrical wild man": poetry chapbooks and the lure of textbook projects, 1925-1950 -- On the long textbook trail: the rocky road to success with the Ryerson-Macmillan readers, 1922-1930 -- Cross-Canada success for the Ryerson-Macmillan readers: in the shadow of copyright, 1930-1936 -- From romantic history to academic history: publishing C.W. Jefferys and Harold Innis, 1921-1951 -- Through the Depression to greater autonomy: publishing Frederick Philip Grove and Laura Goodman Salverson, 1933-1954 -- Publishing art history in the shadow of the Second World War: Ryerson's landmark Canadian art series, 1937-1948 -- Wearing the heart out in wartime: Lorne Pierce, Ryerson Press, and the Second World War, 1939-1945 -- "Tempting Satan and the bailiff": juggling modernist and traditional poetry in the 1940s and 1950s -- Impresario and aging lion: fielding a new generation of critics and writers, 1940-1960 -- "Near the exit": Lorne Pierce's final decade, 1950-1961 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Lorne Pierce's Prayer for one day only
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773588653
Language:
English
Keywords:
Pierce, Lorne 1890-1961
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Ryerson Press
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Biografie
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