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Andrew Brink
Andrew Brink (BA, MA, Toronto; PhD, London, UK) is a retired professor of English literature at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also former Co-ordinator of Th...view moreAndrew Brink (BA, MA, Toronto; PhD, London, UK) is a retired professor of English literature at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also former Co-ordinator of The Humanities and Psychoanalytic Thought Program, Trinity College, University of Toronto. His books include Loss and Symbolic Repair (1977), Obsession and Culture: A Study of Sexual Obsession in Modern Fiction (1996) and The Creative Matrix: Anxiety and the Origin of Creativity (2000). Invading Paradise: Esopus Settlers at War with Natives, 1659, 1663 results from exploring genealogy and family history from the colonial period in New Netherland to westward migration into Upper Canada. He advocates accurate family “remembering”, by placing genealogical data in its historical contexts.view less