Books published by University of Toronto Press

This study traces the transmission history of the poem, Paradise Lost, from its first appearance in 1667, through the eighteenth century with its emphasis on conjectural criticism, to the present century when it was subjected to unwarranted 'restoration.'

This book reveals emerging theory in the nebulous area between neurophysiology and behavioural science which is of such vital importance in the mental health field.

This volume contains informative and stimulating articles on the new states and modern problems of Africa. The hopes and difficulties of independence, the tensions of racial contacts, are sketched with vigour and conciseness for West, South and East Africa.

Marston LaFrance (1927-75) was a stoic for most of his life, although the basic humanitas of the man softened what otherwise might have been mere grim endurance. This tribute to him is a new kind of festschrift: the papers in it are unified by their strict critical focus on stoicism in American literature.

This study provides the only general introduction available to an important ecclesiastical institution of the Reformation and post-Reformation period; it serves as a series of footnotes to the careers of certain prominent persons, and as a partial bibliography of the sermon-literature of the period.

Dr. Kaye has set out to fill in some of the gap sin the story of the settlement of the Canadian West through this documentary history of the beginnings of Ukrainian settlement in Canada.

The essays in this book, by English, American and Canadian scholars, constitute a spectrum of some of the most influential kinds of scholarship and criticism in contemporary English studies. They range over the interests which for forty years A.S.P. Woodhouse made his wide province.

This collection of essays covers a broad spectrum of Canadian problems in public law. The contributors have prepared the volume in honour of Dean Emeritus F.C. Cronkite of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan.

The U-Boat Hunters, which completes Milner's analysis of the RCN's battle with Germany's submarines, is a pioneering study of the final years of the Atlantic war and a landmark work in both Canadian and modern naval history.

This standard bibliography of Frontenac, the "fighting governor" of New France, was issued previously in the famous Makers of Canada Series, which is now out of print, although still in constant use in libraries. This is the first time this volume has been published separately from the complete set.

Antonine Gerin-Lajoie's Jean Rivard (1862-4) is recognized as a landmark novel in Quebec literature. In this study, Robert Major challenges this view of the novel and of the political and intellectual millieu in which it was produced. He suggests that Quebec culture in the nineteenth century was far richer and more diverse.

This probing study of the career, works, and influence of Ernst Cassirer -- a German-Jewish neo-Kantian who taught at the University of Hamburg until Hitler came to power -- analyses his thoughts on human culture as they developed during the turbulent political and cultural conditions in the Germany of his time.

The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages presents a totally new approach to medieval Irish history. It succeeds in examining the feudal lordship of Ireland as a whole, and in tracing the origins of the conflict Gaelic and Anglo-Irish traditions which were to determine the whole pattern of Irish history in succeeding centuries.

Professor Leech examines the changing nature of Shakespeare's comic art, from its early forms, where delight predominates, to later developments, where elements of the playwright's tragic vision intrude to prevent the effect from bein g wholly comic.

These essays were presented originally as lecturers at the official ceremonies which marked the opening of the new Law Building in the University of Toronto. The book is intended to be a sharing of the ideas of the eminent lecturers with the community at large.

Anne Lohrli has provided a table of contents to the nineteen volumes of Household Words, a list of the contributors with their contributions, and a title index to the more than 3,000 items, prose and verse, published during the nine years of the periodical's existence.

This supplement to Canadian Selection: Books and Periodicals for Libraries (1978) contains 1800 new titles and 50 new periodicals published up to the end of 1979.

The comprehensive volume deals with the manufacturing processes involved in the following Canadian industries. The securing and preliminary preparation of raw materials are given, all stages of processing from receiving materials in the plant to final packaging and shipping outlined.

This co-operative venture by thirty-eight leading Canadian lawyers, jurists, and scholars is the first published survey on a major scale to cover nearly all aspects of Canadian relations with international organization.

Not much remained to be said about Racine as a dramatic artist, but as one brought up to consider Shakespeare as the model of tragedy, the author brings a fresh approach to a dramatist who has been to a great extent a Gallic monopoly.

The Argentaye tract, writing some time in the early fifteenth century, is a little-known heraldic treatise of which there appears to be only one extant copy. In this book, the first scholarly edition of any such treatise, Alan Manning presents the original text with extensive notes elucidating difficult passages and points of interest.

Bentham on Liberty focuses on the crucial formative years, when the English social philosopher Jeremy Bentham was in his twenties and thirties between 1770 and 1790, and draws on the unpublished manuscripts held at University College, London, to throw a new light on his early intellectual development.

In this carefully researched work, Dr Lupul investigates the school question in the North-West Territories int he late nineteenth century before the division of the area into the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This was an impotant development in Canada's educational, political, and religious history.

William Deacon's vast correspondence with a wide range of writers, politicians, historians, cultural nationalists and a select number of eccentrics created a forty-year dialogue in which is ideas about writing, publishing culture, and politics were shared, formulated, and debated with a formidable array of personal and literary friends.

Leading Shakespeare scholars from around the world gathered at the First World Shakespeare Congress held in Vancouver in August 1971. This volume presents a carefully selected edition of twenty of the papers presented at the Congress.

The argument of this study is that the Arcadia, like the High Renaissance painting analysed by Heinrich Wolfflin, is characterized by what may be called 'multiple unity.' Professor Lindheim finds that the key to the greater stylistic and narrative complexity of the revised Arcadia lies in the larger and deeper reading of experience that it offers.

Francis Eugene LaBrie attempted to present, as far as possible, a complete picture of the case law on the meaning of income and then to superimpose on this law the text of the Canadian statutes.

Professor Lapp now makes an important contribution to this recent work on Zola. In making his examination Professor Lapp has been interested in determining whether certain patters of plot, character, situation, and image which occur constantly throughout the Rougon-Macquart were present also in the works prior to 1870.

R.C. Macleod traces the evolution of the North-West Mounted Police and also investigates why it was so successful. He finds both structural and sociological reasons.

Professor Mandell uses the Paris Exposition as an approach to the traditional, political, and intellectual problems of France and the world at the turn of the century.