Fashioning the Canadian Landscape: Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1487500211 ISBN 13: 9781487500214

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2018

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Reseña del editor

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 his 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.

Biografía del autor

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

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1487500211
• ISBN 13: 9781487500214
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342
• Herausgeber: Little John Irvine