{"product_id":"fashioning-the-canadian-landscape-essays-on-travel-writing-tourism-and-national-identity-in-the-pre-automobile-era-hardback-9781487500214","title":"Fashioning the Canadian Landscape; Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era (Hardback) 9781487500214","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFashioning the Canadian Landscape\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Irvine Little (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487500214\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...Little\u0026amp;#x2019;s essays suggest that nineteenth-century tourism provides a significant vantage point for understanding the interplay of different discourses and performances of \u0026amp;#x2018;nation\u0026amp;#x2019; that occurred within the Dominion\u0026amp;#x2019;s borders.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto (Histoire Sociale\/Social History, vol 52 no 105, May '19) \u003cp\u003e\"Why visit Canada but for its awe-inspiring natural spaces and picturesque villages? J.I. Little\u0026amp;#x2019;s collection of essays details how travel writers from Britain, the United States, and Canada situated landscape at the center of Canadian identity and Canada\u0026amp;#x2019;s purpose in the world. A collection of eight revised and two new essays carry the reader over 150 years and across what has become Canada, revealing ways in which writers connected identity to colonial landscape transformation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Rebecca Mancuso (\u003cem\u003eAmerican Review of Canadian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Little\u0026amp;#x2019;s contribution comes from looking deeply at how a wide variety of landscapes in the provinces that are now Canada have been fashioned. The deep study of specific landscapes makes this collection a rewarding read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Eleanor Bird, Lancaster University (\u003cem\u003eBritish Journal of Canadian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpretations 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFashioning the Canadian Landscape, \u003c\/i\u003eJ.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\u0026amp;#x2019;s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u0026amp;#x2018;folk\u0026amp;#x2019;, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 \u0026amp;#x2018;Like a fragment of the old world\u0026amp;#x2019;: The Historical Regression of Quebec City in Travel Narratives and Tourist Guidebooks, 1776-1913\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Canadian Pastoral: Promotional Images of British Colonization in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships during the 1830s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 West Coast Picturesque: Class, Gender, and Race in a British Colonial Landscape, 1858-71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Scenic Tourism on the Northeastern Borderland: Lake Memphremagog's Steamboat Excursions and Resort Hotels, 1850-1900\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Seeing Elemental Nature: An American Transcendentalist On and Off the Coast of Labrador, 1864-65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham\u0026amp;#x2019;s Quebec Essays in \u003ci\u003eHarper\u0026amp;#x2019;s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 1883-89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 \u0026amp;#x2018;A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people\u0026amp;#x2019;: Travellers, Tourism, and the Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1859-1920\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Picturing a National Landscape: Images of Nature in \u003ci\u003ePicturesque Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Our Lady of the Snows: Rudyard Kipling\u0026amp;#x2019;s Imperialist Vision of Canada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 A Country Without a Soul: Rupert Brooke\u0026amp;#x2019;s Gothic Vision of Canada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: An Unknown Country?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595447824664,"sku":"9781487500214","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fashioning-the-canadian-landscape-essays-on-travel-writing-tourism-and-national-identity-in-the-pre-automobile-era-hardback-9781487500214","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}