{"product_id":"our-intellectual-strength-and-weakness","title":"Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be his public mission to align reality with his own personal vision. Writing in 1893 to the élite represented by the members of the Royal Society, he described his work as ‘a monograph on the intellectual development of the Dominion,’ describing ‘the progress of culture in a country still struggling with the difficulties of the material development of half a continent.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo decades later, Thomas Guthrie Marquis and Camille Roy wrote what were, in contrast, specialized assignments, contributions to the compendium history,\u003cem\u003e Canada and Its Provinces\u003c\/em\u003e (1913). Addressing a far larger audience, and treating a vastly enlarged body of Canadian literature, their work comes much closer to contemporary scholarship, with greater clarity, organization, and sheer bulk of information, but with the loss of some of the charm and assurance of Bourinot’s wide sweep. In further contrast to Bourinot’s determined biculturalism and will to unity, Roy and Marquis’ essays display vivid differences in the emotional allegiances and convictions of the founding cultures. Marquis starts by asking the question, ‘Has Canada a voice of her own in literature distinct from that of England?’; Roy treats French-Canadian literature in its Roman Catholic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"\u003cP\u003eBy Sir John George Bourinot, Thomas Guthrie Marquis, and Camille Roy\u003c\/P\u003e \u003cP\u003eIntroduction by Clara Thomas\u003c\/P\u003e","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575579279542,"sku":"9780802061751","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780802061751_866a1c52-e714-4820-8abc-82bd1c245ad4.jpg?v=1727460219","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/our-intellectual-strength-and-weakness","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}