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27 septembre 2017
- handle: 10670/1.vzxqxj
- isbn: 9780776601809
- eisbn: 9780776627007
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Stephen Leacock écrits auteur author writing Stephen Leacock LIT004080 Literature African Australian Canadian DSBCiter ce document
James Steele, « Imperial Cosmopolitanism, or the Partly Solved Riddle of Leacock’s Multi-National Persona », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.vzxqxj
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Leacock’s peculiar habit of altering the national character of his literary persona may be explained, at least in part, by a consideration of some of his work as a political theorist. On the one hand, his literary essays provide ample evidence that he could present himself as a Canadian, an American, an Englishman, or even as a combination of two or three of these nationalities. On the other hand, his political writings offer an account of the evolution of the state as a political form and an...