Marriage of Minds (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2003-09-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Utmärkelser
Winner of Chalmers Award in Ontario History 2004 (Canada); Winner of Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2004 (Canada); Commended for Clio Award (Ont Region), Canadian Histori
Förlag
University of Toronto Press
Illustrationer
15 halftones
Dimensioner
235 x 155 x 31 mm
Vikt
670 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780802009326

Marriage of Minds

Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada

av Terry Crowley
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-09-01
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Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis, was highly praised by Vladimir Lenin. His wife, Isabel Skelton (1877-1956), wrote extensively about literature and history; she was the first historian to treat women from the country's past individually in their own right rather than as a generalized category. Both husband and wife promoted the idea that Canada was an independent nation that no longer needed Britain's tutelage. Terry Crowley has written a unique double biography that examines the lives of Isabel and Oscar, their works, and their careers. He shows how both individuals in their own way influenced the development of Canada as a nation state. Crowley questions why, when both Isabel and Oscar wrote influential works, Oscar's career blossomed, while Isabel remains virtually unrecognized. He concludes that despite Isabel's literary accomplishments, her life remained enmeshed in domestic and family roles, while Oscar's rise to prominence was facilitated by male scholarly and publishing networks as well as the support that women provided to men's careers. This book traces the lives of two people who rejected British colonialism and hailed a new nation on the world's stage, examining the intersections of gender, nationality, and literary expression at a significant juncture in Canada's history.
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Terry Crowley is a professor of HIstory at the University of Guelph. Among his previous books, Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality won the W.C. Good Writing Award of the Rural Learning Association.

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