FATHER-SON CONFLICT IN THE NOVELS OF HUGH MACLENNAN

Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990), a distinguished modern Canadian novelist, was born in the remote coal-mining town of Glace Bay in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He received his bachelor’s degree and won a Rhodes Scholarship which took him to Oriel College, Oxford where he worked slavishly on the exceptionally difficult course of studies called Honour Moderations and Literae Humaniores. He acquired a research degree in Classics at Princeton University, America. Within three years, for his Ph.D., he wrote a thesis on the decline of an early Roman Colony in Egypt, which was later published as Oxyrhynchus: An Economic and Social Study.