Transatlantic Upper Canada : portraits in literature, land, and British-Indigenous relations / Kevin Hutchings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchings, Kevin (Kevin Douglas), 1960- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's transatlantic studies ; 2.

McGill-Queen's transatlantic studies ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. In the first detailed study of literary interactions between Indigenous people and colonial authorities in Upper Canada and Britain, Kevin Hutchings analyzes the period's key figures and the central role that romanticism, ecology, and environment played in their writings. Investigating the ties that bound Upper Canada and Great Britain together during the early nineteenth century, Transatlantic Upper Canada demonstrates the existence of a cosmopolitan culture whose implications for the land and its people are still felt today. The book examines the writings of Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and John Brant and Anishinabeg authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, and George Copway, as well as European figures John Beverley Robinson, John Strachan, Anna Brownell Jameson, and Sir Francis Bond Head. Hutchings argues that, despite their cultural differences, many factors connected these writers, including shared literary interests, cross-Atlantic journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual acquaintance, and engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous territory and governance. A close examination of relationships between peoples and their understandings of land, Transatlantic Upper Canada creates a rich portrait of the nineteenth-century British Atlantic world and the cultural and environmental consequences of colonialism and resistance.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Literature, Land, and Colonial Relations

Romantic Ecology, Indigenous Culture, and the Ideology of “Improvement”

Bishop John Strachan, Christian Evangelism, and the First Nations of Upper Canada

The Legal, Literary, and Environmental Passions of Sir John Beverley Robinson

Anna Brownell Jameson and Sir Francis Bond Head among the Anishinaabeg

The Transatlantic World of John Norton (Chief Teyoninhokarawen)

John Brant (Chief Ahyonwaeghs) and the Grand River Haudenosaunee

Peter Jones (Chief Kahkewaquonaby) and the Credit River Mississauga

The Atlantic Crossings of George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)

Afterword: Paths Not Taken

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228002666

0228002664

9780228002659

0228002656

OCLC:

1147874801