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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.
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