Professing English

by Sandra Djwa

"Sandra Djwa has provided readers with an artefact: a cultural biography with a human face. Roy Daniells (1902-79), an English professor who taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba and finished his career at the University of British Columbia, was an outstanding scholar, teacher, and poet, and influenced at least four generations of students. Daniells was a key figure - a cultural analyst - in the consolidation of English as a discipline and the development of Canadian literature as a recognized body of writing and a legitimate focus of scholarship, interacting...

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