
The Imperialist
Sara Jeannette Duncan(Author)
New Canadian Library (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-7710-9629-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sara Jeannette Duncan's classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, The Imperialist captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by "the Imperialist idea,” Lorne Murchison rests his bid for office on his vision of a rejuvenated British Empire. His sister Advena betrays a kindred attraction to the high-flown ideals in her love for an unworldly, and unavailable, young minister. Nimbly alternating between politics and romance, Duncan constructs a superbly ironic object-lesson in the Canadian virtue of compromise.
Sympathetic, humorous, and wonderfully detailed, The Imperialist is an astute analysis of the paradoxes of Canadian nationhood, as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1904.
Sympathetic, humorous, and wonderfully detailed, The Imperialist is an astute analysis of the paradoxes of Canadian nationhood, as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1904.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Publishing group
McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7710-9629-7 (9780771096297)
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Imperialist
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04/2010
1st Edition
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Sara Jeannette Duncan, Afterword by Janette Turner Hospital