Sketches from a young country the images of Grip magazine

Summary: The Canadian political and social discussion of the late nineteenth century owed a great deal to Grip, the satirical magazine that kept a vigilant eye on national affairs from 1873 to 1894. Illustrated and edited by an energetic, talented young reformer named John W. Bengough, Grip featured sketches, poetry, and political invective. Bengough's caricatures of dignitaries and his cartoons of political situations were supplemented in at least two periods by the acerbic commentary of socialist pioneer T. Phillips Thompson. Together, the two men provided a running account and critique of the era's attitudes on class, sex, race, and public policy. Bengough was part of a broad progressive alliance that linked farm and labour agitators with Christian intellectuals alarmed about the worst excesses of turn-of-the-century capitalism. Grip was an early, and righteous, crusader for this liberal, Protestant, reformist view.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442679993 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1442679999 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0802006957 (bound : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0802076467 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780802076465
ISBN: 9780802006950
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiv, 275 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1997.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Includes cartoons by J.W. Bengough published in Grip, 1873-1894. Multi-User. CatMonthString:august.17 Terms of use -
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The Texture of the Times -- 2. Bengough, Thompson, and Grip -- 3. Politics: The Seventies -- 4. Politics: The Eighties -- 5. Grip and the Press Wars -- 6. Race and Creed -- 7. Opening of the West -- 8. The Radical Times -- 9. Imperialism and Independence -- 10. Grip's Social Conscience -- 11. Conclusion: 'A Lesser Craft'.