Fashioning the Canadian Landscape : Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era / John Irvine Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, J. I. (John Irvine), 1947- author.

Contributor:

Little, John Irvine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Canada--History--19th century.

Tourism.

Travel--History--19th century.

Travel.

Travelers' writings, British--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, British.

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American.

National characteristics, Canadian--History--19th century.

National characteristics, Canadian.

Picturesque, The, in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Canada--In literature.

Canada.

Canada--Description and travel.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 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, 1858-1871; 4 Scenic Tourism on a Canadian-American 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, 1864-18656 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham's Quebec Essays in Harper's Magazine, 1883-1889; 7 "A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people": Travel Writers, Tourism Promoters, and the Highland Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1829-1920; 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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-327).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1043-8

1-4875-1042-X

OCLC:

1031706687