Fashioning the Canadian Landscape

Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781487500214 (ISBN)

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In his book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to America, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.

In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.

This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian ‘folk’, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.

J.I. Little is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University.

Introduction

1 ‘Like a fragment of the old world’: The Historical Regression of Quebec City in Travel Narratives and Tourist Guidebooks, 1776-1913

2 Canadian Pastoral: Promotional Images of British Colonization in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships during the 1830s

3 West Coast Picturesque: Class, Gender, and Race in a British Colonial Landscape, 1858-71

4 Scenic Tourism on the Northeastern Borderland: Lake Memphremagog's Steamboat Excursions and Resort Hotels, 1850-1900

5 Seeing Elemental Nature: An American Transcendentalist On and Off the Coast of Labrador, 1864-65

6 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham’s Quebec Essays in Harper’s Magazine, 1883-89

7 ‘A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people’: Travellers, Tourism, and the Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1859-1920

8 Picturing a National Landscape: Images of Nature in Picturesque Canada

9 Our Lady of the Snows: Rudyard Kipling’s Imperialist Vision of Canada

10 A Country Without a Soul: Rupert Brooke’s Gothic Vision of Canada

Afterword: An Unknown Country?

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2018
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 231 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-13	9781487500214 / 9781487500214
Zustand	Neuware