Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture / edited by Heinz Antor ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antor, Heinz, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Canada--In literature.

Canada.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Canada--Description and travel--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2005]

Contents:

The archeology of a novel: an afterword to The Blue Mountains of China / Rudy Wiebe

"A new Athens rising near the Pole"?: the Canadian experience in Frances Brooke's The history of Emily Montague (1769) / Gordon Bölling

Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838): a European woman's view of the New World / Heinz Antor

"Capable of great improvement": Catherine Parr Traill's images of Canada in The young emigrants (1826) / Klaus Stierstorfer

Deserts and visions of paradise: the representation of the Canadian landscape in advertisements and guides for Canadian immigrants / Markus Wust

Destination and destiny: contemporary Canadian plays on immigrants / Albert-Reiner Glaap

The representation of Canada in novels by Frederick Marryat and Robert Michael Ballantyne / Melanie Just

Victorians abroad: Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope in Canada / Michael Heinze

"Alle diese Länder sind unbekannt": Canada in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German travel literature / Ingmar Probst

"A Canadian literature?": Elizabeth Smart and the failures of nationalism / Robert McGill

In search of Cathaia

voyages into the unexpected / Elke Nowak

Re-enacting the Arctic voyage: the Northwest Passage in British literature / Annette Kern-Stähler

Stuffed mooseheads: Canada as (missing) cliché in European theatre / Christopher Innes

Cultural reductionism and the reception of Canadian literature in Germany / James Skidmore

Wildlife abounds? The photographic deconstruction of a Canadian cliché in Robert Gernhardt's satire "Blanket Creek oder Verwilderte Wünsche" / Susanne Peters

"One sees only what one knows": German popular literature and its images of Canada / Laurenz Volkmann

Canada as a role model? Reflections of a country in post-war German youth fiction / Miriam Richter

What makes a Canadian? Strategies of presenting Canadianness in teaching materials / Matthias Merkl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3110183420

OCLC:

61445786

Publisher Number:

9783110183429