Title Home feelings : liberal citizenship and the Canadian reading camp movement / Jody Mason

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Carleton Library series ; 249 Carleton library series ; 249. Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Reformers, Literacy, and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement -- Introduction -- Creating a "Home Feeling": The Uses of Fiction and Poetry, 1899-1905 -- Print for "The Immigrant" and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship, 1906-1919 -- Using the Pedagogy of Liberal Citizenship, 1920-1929 -- "Red" Literacy and Counter-Literacy in Relief Camps for the Unemployed, 1930-1936 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first sustained analysis of the organization that became Frontier College in 1919. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, Home Feelings investigates how the reading camp movement used fiction, poetry, songs, newspapers, magazines, school readers, and English-as-a-second-language and citizenship manuals to encourage ideas of selfhood that were individual and intimate rather than collective. Mason shows that British-Canadian settlers' desire to define themselves in relation to an expanding non-British immigrant population, as well as a need for immigrant labour, put new pressure on the concept of citizenship in the first decades of the twentieth century. Through the Frontier College, one of the nation's earliest citizenship education programs emerged, drawing on literature's potential to nourish "home feelings" as a means of engaging socialist and communist print cultures and the non-British immigrant communities with which these were associated. Shifting the focus away from urban centres and postwar state narratives of citizenship, Home Feelings tracks the importance of reading projects and conceptions of literacy to the emergence of liberal citizenship in Canada prior to the Second World War."-- Provided by publisher Analysis 20th century Canada Citizenship History Literacy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Frontier College -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Frontier College fast Subject Literacy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Citizenship -- Canada -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- ) Citizenship Literacy Canada Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020438396 ISBN 0773559590 9780773559608 0773559604 9780773559592

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