The complete online text of A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille.

Working at night and very fast, James De Mille wrote over twenty popular novels--"potboilers"--between 1861 and 1877. By day, he was the respected and respectable professor of rhetoric and history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who taught his classes...

James De Mille was one of the most successful and prolific nineteenth-century Canadian writers of popular fiction during his relatively short writing career. He is best remembered for A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), an apparently...

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In the following essay, Kilgour asserts that De Mille utilized the figure of the cannibal in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder as an instrument for commenting on mid-nineteenth-century imperialism and materialism.

In the following excerpt, Guth considers De Mille's use of framing in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder to satirize the process of exegesis.

In the following essay, Milnes presents A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder as a parable of the colonial experience, highlighting what he considers the political necessity of Lord Featherstone's yawn that ends the novel and prevents any further disclosure of colonialist strategies and practices.