ENGL 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Double Entendre, Responsible Government, Bluetory

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 228
• Professor: Eli Mac Laren

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What (cid:272)a(cid:374) this pie(cid:272)e of lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e . Satire: humorous, and is calculated to make us laugh, however, there is a lesson behind the laughter. What does it tell us about canada: haliburton gave voice to the loyalist conservativism that helps form canada. Thompson is a voice for fur trade, the set of interactions between european travelers and the first nations people; interactions that were constitutive for this country; Thompson took part in trade and mapmaking: canada would not exist had it not been for the fur trade that we saw through. David thompson: see the influences of what canada is. Purpose: urge canada (colony of nova scota) to sovereignty and prosperity within the. British empire as opposed to succumbing to the influence of the us. His writing also showed us canadian pre-culture. Hali(cid:271)u(cid:396)to(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ook (cid:449)as pu(cid:271)lished to g(cid:396)eat su(cid:272)(cid:272)ess: first, in a newspaper, then a best selling book that was pirated in the britain (remember that book culture)