| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Carleton Library series ; 249
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Carleton library series ; 249.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and 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. |
| Contents |
Preface: reformers, literacy, and the Canadian reading camp movement -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Frontier College -- History -- 20th century.
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Frontier College. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Literacy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Literacy. |
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Canada. |
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Citizenship -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Citizenship. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
20th century |
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Canada |
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Citizenship |
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History |
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Literacy |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mason, Jody, 1976- Home feelings. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 077355887X 9780773558878 (OCoLC)1089858158 |
| ISBN |
0773559590 |
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9780773559608 (ePUB) |
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0773559604 |
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9780773559592 (electronic book) |
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077355887X |
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9780773558878 |
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9780773558861 |
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0773558861 |
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