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(1796-1865)
In creating the Yankee clockmaker Sam Slick, Judge Haliburton turned from legislation to satire in his drive to promote social and political change in Nova Scotia. ...
Sam Slick appealed to British and American readers as well as to Nova Scotians. ... Sam Slick was so popular that Haliburton wrote a whole series of books, which passed through numerous regular editions and pirated printings. ... Johnny Canuck, the personification of Canada in early political cartoons, emerged in 1869 as a younger, simpler cousin to America’s Uncle Sam or Britain’s John Bull. ...
The Clockmaker; or The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville,, by Thomas Chandler HALIBURTON, originally appeared as newspaper sketches. Sam Slicks colloquial, vernacular Yankee voice, peddling clocks as well as his views on "human natur," first beguiled Haligonians in 1835 in Joseph HOWEs newspaper, The Novascotian. ...
Haliburton found in Sam Slicks Yankee idiom and wit the perfect voice for a running, wryly mocking commentary on Nova Scotias social scene, its political life and its relations with the US and Britain.
Approximate Word count = 1149
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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