“Gentlemen,” said Mark Twain’s contemporary, Artemus Ward, rising at a banquet with his glass held aloft, “I give you Upper Canada!”; then he added mournfully,“because I don’t want it myself.”StephenLeacock, “Mark Twain and Canada,” Queen’s Quarterly 42 The study of humour is a fascinating, complex,...
This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.