Simultaneously, the text’s intricate play with heterochronies suggests that Haliburton’s Nova Scotia contains heterotopic spaces in Foucauldian terms, where the ordinary time passage is necessarily breached for the colony to attain proper legacy and distinct cultural status.
THE CLOCKMAKER THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON SERIES
Davies has done Haliburton a great service by reintroducing his series of sketches to a new audience of readers. Immediately, Slick leapt off the page, and he continues to do so in this new edition of The Clockmaker, carefully prepared by Richard A. Approaching The Old Judge from the perspective of Cynthia Sugars’ Canadian Gothic and Lorenzo Veracini’s settler colonialism, I argue that the text represents the past of the province as curiously extended in time in the Old World fashion, so that it may encompass the stages of cultural development required to gain the Empire’s recognition. As a writer he became known for his The Clockmaker or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville. In the 1830s, Thomas Chandler Haliburton gave us the figure of Sam Slick, a wily Yankee clock-pedlar of incomparable vigour and voice. In The Old Judge, temporal distance of the past, apart from its richness - both confirmed by the presence of the properly historicized settler ghost - is the condition for cultural distinctiveness, maturity and heritage. His popular Sam Slick the Clockmaker character was a. It pays attention to the manner in which the text prepares the ground for native identity formation by providing a version of Nova Scotia’s recent history that is nonetheless presented as bygone and ancient. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (17961865) was one of pre-confederation Canadas best-known authors. Haliburton’s The Old Judge as shaped by the writer’s British North American context as well as his political background and agenda. This article investigates the representation of time in T.
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