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Author Cumming, Carman.

Title Sketches from a young country : the images of Grip magazine / Carman Cumming.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
Contents 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'.
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.
Sketches from a Young Country is the first comprehensive study to evaluate this historically important magazine, to assess the motivations of its authors, and to set both in social and political context. Containing over a hundred of Bengough's cartoons, with captions to clarify contemporary references, and offering an assessment of Grip in relation to its British and American counterparts, Sketches from a Young Country makes an exciting contribution to popular history, Canadian politics, and the history of journalism.
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Subject Grip (Toronto, Ont.)
Grip (Toronto, Ont.)
Bengough, John Wilson, 1851-1923.
Bengough, J. W. (John Wilson), 1851-1923.
Grip.
Grip (Toronto, Ont.)
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1867-1914.
Canada.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1867-1914
Subject Canada -- Politics and government -- 1867-1914 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Genre/Form Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject Press and politics -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Press and politics.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Political culture -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture.
Ontario -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Ontario.
Ontario -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Political culture -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century.
Canadian wit and humor, Pictorial -- History.
Canadian wit and humor, Pictorial.
Canadian wit and humor (English) -- History and criticism.
Canada -- Politics and government -- 1867-1896 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Ontario -- Politics and government -- 1867-1905 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chronological Term 1800-1914
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Cartoons (Humor)
Cartoons (Humor)
Added Title Grip (Toronto, Ont.)
Other Form: Print version: Cumming, Carman. Sketches from a young country. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997 9780802006950 (DLC) 98193741 (OCoLC)40074425
ISBN 9781442679993 (electronic book)
1442679999 (electronic book)
0802006957 (bound ; acid-free paper)
0802076467 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9780802076465
9780802006950