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Author Little, J. I. (John Irvine), 1947- author.

Title Fashioning the Canadian landscape : essays on travel writing, tourism, and national identity in the pre-automobile era / J.I. Little.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1 "Like a fragment of the old world": The Historical Regression of Quebec City in Travel Narratives and Tourist Guidebooks, 1776-1913; 2 Canadian Pastoral: Promotional Images of British Colonization in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships during the 1830s; 3 West Coast Picturesque: Class, Gender, and Race in a British Colonial Landscape, 1858-1871; 4 Scenic Tourism on a Canadian-American Borderland: Lake Memphremagog's Steamboat Excursions and Resort Hotels, 1850-1900.
5 Seeing Elemental Nature: An American Transcendentalist On and Off the Coast of Labrador, 1864-18656 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham's Quebec Essays in Harper's Magazine, 1883-1889; 7 "A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people": Travel Writers, Tourism Promoters, and the Highland Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1829-1920; 8 Picturing a National Landscape: Images of Nature in Picturesque Canada; 9 Our Lady of the Snows: Rudyard Kipling's Imperialist Vision of Canada; 10 A Country without a Soul: Rupert Brooke's Gothic Vision of Canada; Afterword: An Unknown Country?
Summary In his book 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 America, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.
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Subject Travel -- History -- 19th century.
Travel.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Tourism -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Tourism.
Canada.
Travelers' writings, British -- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, British.
Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, Canadian -- History -- 19th century.
Travelers' writings, American.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
National characteristics, Canadian.
Landscapes in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Canada -- In literature.
Canada -- Description and travel.
Landscapes in literature.
TRAVEL -- Canada -- General.
HISTORY / Canada / General.
Literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Little, J.I. (John Irvine), 1947- Fashioning the Canadian landscape. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] 9781487500214 (OCoLC)981116207
ISBN 9781487510428 (electronic book)
148751042X (electronic book)
9781487500214
1487500211