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Professor Hair draws on a lifetime of scholarship and teaching in this brief yet insightful introduction to Charles Dickens's novel Little Dorrit. Both readers coming to the novel for the first time and those returning to it will find their enjoyment and understanding enhanced by his analysis of how Dickens uses character, plot and atmosphere to drive home his message of social protest. And that message is as relevant today as it was when Litt...

As the author notes in his introduction, this fascinating and insightful book is "family history with a context." Placing the lives of his parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative, Dr. Hair explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario, that great peninsula of fertile farmland lying between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Dubbed "Souwesto" in the 1960s by artist Greg Curnoe and playwright James Reaney, the reg...

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable coming of age, not only for Canadian literature but also for Canadian universities. As a professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Donald S. Hair experienced both of these transformations firsthand. In this engaging memoir, Hair looks back over his long career. He discusses his encounters with (and impressions of) such prominent figures in Canadian literature as ...

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As the author notes in his introduction, this fascinating and insightful book is "family history with a context." Placing the lives of his parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative, Dr. Hair explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario, that great peninsula of fertile farmland lying between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Dubbed "Souwesto" in the 1960s by artist Greg Curnoe and playwright James Reaney, the reg...

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Donald S. Hair is professor emeritus in the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Attempts to define Browning's understanding of the nature and use of words and syntax by considering a full range of his texts, the ideas important to him, his historical context, and the other artistic passions that played a part in his life.