Fashioning the Canadian Landscape

Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era
Herausgeber: Little, John Irvine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781487500214
• ISBN-10: 1487500211
• Artikelnr.: 47974869

Autorenporträt

By J.I. Little

Inhaltsangabe

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?