Canadian travellers in Europe, 1851-1900 [electronic resource] / Eva-Marie Kröller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kröller, Eva-Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers--Canada--History--19th century.

Travelers.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides both a detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the nineteenth century and an unusual perspective on Canadian cultural history. The Canadians who wrote about their experiences abroad during the era of mass travel which followed the advent of the steamship reveal much about themselves and their own country as well. Who were these travellers, why did they travel, and what did they expect to see? In answering these questions, Eva-Marie Kroller draws upon a wide variety of materials: novels, guide books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, paintings, and previously unpublished letters and diaries. The self-assured progress of the privileged Canadian travellers often turned into introspective voyages of self-discovery. For one thing, Europeans often mistook them for Americans, and many had to ask themselves what it really meant to be Canadian. In addition, the tone of moral earnestness which pervades the early travellers' tales begins to give way to a certain world-weariness by the end. In Canada and elsewhere, the 'tourist' was a new phenomenon at the beginning of the period, but an accepted part of the modern world by the end of it. Canadian Travellers in Europe will be required reading for devotees of travel writing, but it is also a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Canadian history.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Journals of Fred C. Martin and Nérée Gingras

The Modernization of Travel, Guide Books, and Travel Satire

The Travellers: Social and Cultural Aspects of Travel in Victorian Canada

Women Travellers

Metaphors of Travel

Views of European Cities

Canadians at World Expositions

Notes

Note on Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [167]-188.

ISBN:

1-283-22621-9

9786613226211

0-7748-5687-4

OCLC:

243616462