Title Fashioning the Canadian landscape : essays on travel writing, tourism, and national identity in the pre-automobile era / J.I. Little

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations, maps 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? 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Travel -- History -- 19th century Tourism -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Travelers' writings, British -- History and criticism Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism National characteristics, Canadian -- History -- 19th century Picturesque, The, in literature. Landscapes in literature. TRAVEL -- Canada -- General. HISTORY / Canada / General Landscapes in literature Literature National characteristics, Canadian Picturesque, The, in literature Tourism Travel Travelers' writings, American Travelers' writings, British SUBJECT Canada -- In literature Canada -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019293 Subject Canada Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487510428 148751042X

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