Gardens, Covenants, Exiles: Loyalism in the Literature of Upper Canada/Ontario

by Dennis Duffy

Scraps, tags, figments of the United Empire Loyalist heritage dot the Ontario landscape. Something of Loyalism lies in the very Ontario air and pervades the imagination of its people.

In Gardens, Covenants, Exiles, Dennis Duffy sets out to describe and analyse the effects of Loyalism on the literary culture of Ontario. He explores the enduring nature of an attitude of mind whose historical origins lie in the Loyalist settlements in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802064779
• ISBN13: 9780802064776
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher