E-book
Both hands : a life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press
Record details
- ISBN: 0773588655
- ISBN: 9780773588653
- ISBN: 0773541160
- ISBN: 9780773541160
- ISBN: 0773588647
- ISBN: 9780773588646
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 644 pages) : illustrations, digital file
remote - Publisher: Montréal [Qué.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2013
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-626) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1 Lorne, Mother, and Methodism: Delta, Athens, and Off to Queen's, 1890-1908 -- 2 Visions, Vistas, and Edith: Queen's University, 1908-1912 -- 3 "These Waste Places of God's Great Vineyard": Teaching and Preaching in the Canadian West, 1909-1914 -- 4 Wrestling with "the Gods of the Methodist Discipline": Victoria College, Toronto, and Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1914-1916 -- 5 Orange Blossoms, the Cloth, and Khaki: Marriage, Ministry in Ottawa, and Army Service, 1916-1918 -- 6 Shining in the Rural Shade: Spreading the Social Gospel in Brinston, 1918-1920 -- 7 A New Career and Health Challenges: Lorne Pierce and Ryerson Press, circa 1920 -- 8 "On The Hop": Lorne's Pierce's Uneasy Apprenticeship at Ryerson Press, 1920-925 -- 9 A Strike, a Spat, and the Spirit World: Lorne Pierce, E.J. Pratt, William Arthur Deacon, and Albert Durrant Watson, 1921-1924 -- 10 "A Patron of ... Optimistic Snorts and Whoops": Lorne Pierce, Bliss Carman, Wilson MacDonald, and Launching the Makers of Canadian Literature Series, 1922-1925 -- 11 Up against the Bottom Line: An "Annus Horribilis" at Home and at Work, 1925-1926 -- 12 "Lyrical Wild Man": Poetry Chapbooks and the Lure of Textbook Projects, 1925-1950 -- 13 On the Long Textbook Trail: The Rocky Road to Success with the Ryerson-Macmillan Readers, 1922-1930 -- 14 Cross-Canada Success for the Ryerson-Macmillan Readers: In the Shadow of Copyright, 1930-1936 -- 15 From Romantic History to Academic History: Publishing C.W. Jefferys and Harold Innis, 1921-1951 -- 16 Through the Depression to Greater Autonomy: Publishing Frederick Philip Grove and Laura Goodman Salverson, 1933-1954 -- 17 Publishing Art History in the Shadow of the Second World War: Ryerson's Landmark Canadian Art Series, 1937-1948 -- 18 Wearing the Heart Out in Wartime: Lorne Pierce, Ryerson Press, and the Second World War, 1939-1945 -- 19 "Tempting Satan and the Bailiff": Juggling Modernist and Traditional Poetry in the 1940s and 1950s -- 20 Impresario and Aging Lion: Fielding a New Generation of Critics and Writers, 1940-1960 -- 21 "Near the Exit": Lorne Pierce's Final Decade, 1950-1961 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Lorne Pierce's Prayer for One Day Only. |
| Language Note: | English. |
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