{"id":9721,"date":"2010-03-28T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2010-03-28T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T04:41:08","slug":"stephen-leacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/28\/stephen-leacock\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Leacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/leacock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9722\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/leacock.jpg\" alt=\"leacock\" width=\"302\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/leacock.jpg 504w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/leacock-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Stephen Leacock, photographed by Yousef Karsh, 1940<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1944 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Leacock\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Leacock<\/a> died of cancer at age 74.<\/p>\n<p>Frye regularly refers to Leacock&#8217;s Lord Ronald from <em>Nonsense Novels, <\/em>the hero who is always riding off in all directions.\u00a0 He nicely utilizes the figure here to characterize Canada&#8217;s unusual cultural development during its colonial period:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada had no enlightenment, and very little eighteenth century.\u00a0 The British and the French spent the eighteenth century in Canada battering down each other&#8217;s forts, and Canada went directly from the Baroque expansion of the seventeenth century to the Romantic expansion of the nineteenth.\u00a0 The result was the cultural situation that I tried to characterize in my earlier conclusion [to<em> Literary History of Canada<\/em>].\u00a0 Identity in Canada has always something about it of a centrifugal movement into far distance, of clothes on a growing giant coming apart at the seams, of an elastic about to snap. Stephen Leacock&#8217;s famous hero who rode off rapidly in all directions was unmistakably Canadian. This expanding movement has to be counterbalanced by a sense of having constantly to stay together by making tremendous voluntary efforts at intercommunication, whether of building the CPR or hold federal-provincial conferences. (&#8220;Conclusion to the Second Edition of <em>Literary History of Canada<\/em>&#8220;, CW 12, 454.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leacock&#8217;s &#8220;The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias&#8221; from <em>Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town <\/em>can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicreader.com\/book\/1530\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Leacock, photographed by Yousef Karsh, 1940 On this date in 1944 Stephen Leacock died of cancer at age 74. Frye regularly refers to Leacock&#8217;s Lord Ronald from Nonsense Novels, the hero who is always riding off in all directions.\u00a0 He nicely utilizes the figure here to characterize Canada&#8217;s unusual cultural development during its colonial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-canada"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stephen Leacock - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/28\/stephen-leacock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stephen Leacock - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stephen Leacock, photographed by Yousef Karsh, 1940 On this date in 1944 Stephen Leacock died of cancer at age 74. 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