University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
A Slice of Canada
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national...
The Cromaboo Mail Carrier
A Canadian Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
A Canadian love story about Robbie Smith, a 19-year-old mail carrier travelling the old gravel roadway (now Highway 124) between Cromaboo (Erin) and Gibbeline (Guelph). One day on his travels he sees Miss Mary Paxton, an unwed lady, 14 years his senior. He falls in love with her. And so begins our tale.
Friedrich Schlegel
Literary Notebooks 1797-1801
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Schlegel's notebooks, like those of Coleridge, are complementary to his published writings; they are repositories in which can be traced the growth and continued revision of his ideas. One hundred survived his death, more than half of which have been preserved; of the series of fifteen which deal...
Lifting a Ton of Feathers
A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
This collection of Northrop Frye's writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance spans forty years of his career as a university teacher, public critic, and major theorist of literature and its cultural functions. Extensive annotations and an in-depth critical introduction demonstrate Frye's wide-ranging...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada’s history. Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Newton and his influence. His thought, like that of Aristotle and every other great thinker, underwent development which contemporary scholars are seeking to understand more clearly than did their predecessors, awed as they were by the overwhelming...
by Desiderius Erasmus, Denis L. Drysdall
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Among the most important of Erasmus’ contributions to Christian humanism were his Greek text, new Latin translation, and annotations of the New Testament, an implicit challenge to the authority of the Vulgate and one that provoked numerous responses. This volume of the Collected Works contains translations...
Literary and Educational Writings, 1 and 2
Volume 1: Antibarbari / Parabolae. Volume 2: De copia / De ratione studii
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
These volumes are the first in a series containing works by Erasmus 'that concern literature and education': interests which to him were scarcely separable. The aim of Erasmian education was a civilized life, expressed in Christian piety and the fulfilment of public and private duties and embellished...
Brains and Numbers
Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
A group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated élite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comtism...
by Kirk Melnikoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard...
Allegorical Bodies
Power and Gender in Late Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical...
Minority Report
Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine.
This...
Fathering
Promoting Positive Father Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In the past few decades, researchers and practitioners have moved away from the idea of fatherhood as a single, monolithic concept. Examining the challenges of vulnerable fathers such as those in poverty or in prison, they have developed valuable new strategies for cultivating the positive involvement...