Fashioning the Canadian Landscape - Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era (Hardcover)

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination. In his 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 the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian 'folk', Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	John Irvine Little
Dimensions:	231 x 163 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-0021-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Promotions
LSN:	1-4875-0021-1
Barcode:	9781487500214

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