Part one of term paper
“Literature…is the voice of the people. Through its literature, the life, the soul of a people may be known.” Thomas Chandler Haliburton is the perfect example of an historian and author who tells the life and soul of a people through his literature. More than just great literature, however, Sam Slick, The Clockmaker is a socio-politi ...

Part two of term paper
... own position without directly antagonizing the ruling conservative elite. Well-received on both sides of the Atlantic, Sam Slick became one of the most popular figures in 19th Century English literature. The embodiment of Haliburton’s love affair with the Yankee qualities of thrift, hard work and ingenuity, Slick was for Haliburton the perfect foil to the typical Nova Scotian’s laziness, lack of enterprise and obsession with colonial politics. What made Slick so highly popular was that the sto ...