Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

This Norton Critical Edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town uses the text of the 1912 first edition, second impression, the only edition that takes into account the corrections made between impressions. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and textual emendations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a concise excerpt on Sunshine Sketches from the leading Leacock biography, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews from Canada, Britain, and the United States. "Criticism" is comprised of two sections. The first presents eight scholarly interpretations, by Desmond Pacey, Silver Donald Cameron, W. H. Magee, Ina Ferris, Beverly J. Rasporich, Frank Birbalsingh, Gerald Lynch, and Glenn Willmont, selected for their contribution to critical discussion of the novel. The second brings together responses to the novel by esteemed Canadian novelists Robertson Davies, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Mordecai Richler. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Stephen Leacock was an English-born Canadian humorist and award-winning author. In the early part of the twentieth century, he was perhaps the best-known humorist in the English-speaking world. He wrote numerous books on humor and Canadian culture, as well as biographies of Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. He died in 1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. D. M. R. Bentley is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the editor of a critical edition of Stephen Leacock's Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich. He is the author of Mnemographia Canadensis: Essays on Memory, Community, and Environment in Canada, The Gay Grey Moose: Essays on the Ecologies and Mythologies of Canadian Poetry, 1690-1990, and Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada. He is the founding and continuing editor of Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, and Reviews. He is also the author of many articles on Canadian fiction, culture, and art.