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1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index. |
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White civility : The literary project of English Canada -- The loyalist brother : Fratricide and civility in English Canada's story of origins -- The enterprising Scottish orphan : Inventing the properties of English Canadian character -- The muscular Christian in fictions of the Canadian west -- The maturing colonial son : Manning the borders of white civility -- Wry civility. |
| Summary |
"In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies surrounding Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation builders. He argues that a specific form of whiteness emerged in Canada that was heavily influenced by Britishness. Examining four allegorical figures that recur in a wide range of Canadian writings between 1820 and 1950 - the Loyalist fratricide, the enterprising Scottish orphan, the muscular Christian, and the maturing colonial son - Coleman outlines a geography of whiteness that remains powerfully influential in Canadian thinking to this day." "Blending traditional literary analysis with the approaches of cultural studies and critical race theory, White Civility examines canonical literary text, popular journalism, and mass market bestsellers to trace widespread ideas about Canadian citizenship during the optimistic nation-building years as well as during the years of disillusionment that followed the First World War and the Great Depression. Tracing the consistent project of white civility in Canadian letters, Coleman calls for resistance to this project by transforming whiteness into wry civility, unearthing rather than disavowing the history of racism in Canadian literary culture."--Jacket. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Canadian literature -- History and criticism.
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Canadian literature. |
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Canadian literature -- White authors -- History and criticism.
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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Canada -- Race relations.
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Canada. |
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Race relations. |
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Canadian literature (English) -- White authors -- History and criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coleman, Daniel, 1961- White civility. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2006 9780802037077 (DLC) 2008540430 (OCoLC)62691228 |
| ISBN |
9781442683358 (electronic book) |
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144268335X (electronic book) |
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1282023144 |
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9781282023147 |
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9780802037077 |
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0802037070 |
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9780802096425 |
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0802096425 |
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