Time and Place: The Life and Works of Thomas H. Raddall - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0919107311 ISBN 13: 9780919107311

Publisher: Acadiensis Pr, 1991

About this title

About the Author

Alan R. Young is Professor Emeritus of Acadia University. He is a graduate of the University of Bristol, the University of East Africa, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Alberta. He began his teaching career as a Government Education Officer in Kenya and later taught English at Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta, and Acadia University. He is Professor Emeritus of Acadia University. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Emblematica and has published extensively on the Renaissance emblem, Shakespeare, the tournament, and Atlantic Canadian Literature. His books that deal with emblematic topics include a facsimile edition of Henry Peacham's Emblemata Varia (1976),Henry Peacham (1979), Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments (1987), The English Tournament Imprese (1988), His Majesty's Royal Ship: A Critical Edition of Thomas Heywood's "A True Description" (1990), The Art of the Emblem: Essays in Honor of Karl Josef Höltgen (ed. with Michael Bath and John Manning) (1993), Emblematic Flag Devices of the English Civil Wars 1642-1660 (1995), and Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books (1998). He has long been interested in the application of computer technology to research in the humanities. Three of the books mentioned above - The English Tournament Imprese, Emblematic Flag Devices of the English Civil Wars, and Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books - were based upon computer databases that recorded information concerning collections of emblematic material. His most recent books - Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900 (2002) and Punch and Shakespeare in the Victorian Era (2007) - also made use of extensive databases of visual materials compiled by the author. The database for Hamlet has been published separately as part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Shakespeare Electronic Archive.

From the Back Cover

Thomas H. Raddall has long been admired both in Canada and abroad for his works of historical fiction and for his romance set on Sable Island in the early part of the twentieth century. His Majesty's Yankees, Roger Sudden and Pride's Fancy remain among his most popular titles and The Nymph and the Lamp is widely acknowledged as an established classic of Canadian literature. As an historian on 18th- and 19th-century Atlantic Canada, Raddall has earned a deep respect among his fellow Nova Scotians, and his pioneering efforts to preserve local historical records and buildings are now recognized as a valuable contribution to the preservation of our historical heritage. The essays in this volume by a broadly representative group of literary critics and historians (including an architectural historian and a folklorist) provide a timely reassessment of the life and work of this popular Canadian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Acadiensis Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0919107311
• ISBN 13: 9780919107311
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Young Alan, Thomas H. Raddall Symposium