Both hands : a life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Sandra
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Pierce, Lorne, > 1890-1961.
Ryerson Press > Employees > Biography.
Editors > Canada > Biography.
Publishers and publishing > Canada > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Lorne, mother, and Methodism: Delta, Athens, and off to Queen's, 1890-1908
  • Visions, vistas, and Edith: Queen's University, 1908-1912
  • "These waste places of God's great vineyard": teaching and preaching in the Canadian West, 1909-1914
  • Wrestling with "the gods of the Methodist discipline": Victoria College, Toronto, and Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1914-1916
  • Orange blossoms, the cloth, and khaki: marriage, ministry in Ottawa, and army service, 1916-1918
  • Shining in the rural shade: spreading the social gospel in Brinston, 1918-1920
  • A new career and health challenges: Lorne Pierce and Ryerson Press, circa 1920
  • "On the hop": Lorne Pierce's uneasy apprenticeship at Ryerson Press, 1920-1925
  • A strike, a spat, and the spirit world: Lorne Pierce, E.J. Pratt, William Arthur Deacon, and Albert Durrant Watson, 1921-1924
  • "A patron of ... optimistic snorts and whoops": Lorne Pierce, Bliss Carman, Wilson MacDonald, and launching the Makers of Canadian literature series, 1922-1925
  • Up against the bottom line: an "annus horribilis" at home and at work, 1925-1926
  • "Lyrical wild man": poetry chapbooks and the lure of textbook projects, 1925-1950
  • On the long textbook trail: the rocky road to success with the Ryerson-Macmillan readers, 1922-1930
  • Cross-Canada success for the Ryerson-Macmillan readers: in the shadow of copyright, 1930-1936
  • From romantic history to academic history: publishing C.W. Jefferys and Harold Innis, 1921-1951
  • Through the Depression to greater autonomy: publishing Frederick Philip Grove and Laura Goodman Salverson, 1933-1954
  • Publishing art history in the shadow of the Second World War: Ryerson's landmark Canadian art series, 1937-1948
  • Wearing the heart out in wartime: Lorne Pierce, Ryerson Press, and the Second World War, 1939-1945
  • "Tempting Satan and the bailiff": juggling modernist and traditional poetry in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Impresario and aging lion: fielding a new generation of critics and writers, 1940-1960
  • "Near the exit": Lorne Pierce's final decade, 1950-1961
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Lorne Pierce's Prayer for one day only.

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