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Author Glickman, Susan, 1953-

Title The picturesque and the sublime : a poetics of the Canadian landscape / Susan Glickman.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An introductory ramble through the picturesque and the sublime -- Candian prospects: Abram's Plain and Quebec Hill in context -- "After the beauty of terror the beauty of peace" : notes on the Canadian sublime -- The waxing and waning of Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm" -- "The keen stars' conflicting message" : Wordsworth, Shelley, and Charles G.D. Roberts' ave -- New provinces?, or, in Acadia, no ego -- Song to the rising sun.
Summary "The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque." "Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome - even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art."--Jacket.
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Subject Canadian poetry -- History and criticism.
Canadian poetry.
Landscapes in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Canadian poetry (English) -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Glickman, Susan, 1953- Picturesque and the sublime. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998 (DLC) 98900172
ISBN 9780773567221 (electronic book)
0773567224 (electronic book)
0773517324
9780773517325
9780773521353