Fashioning the Canadian Landscape : : Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era / / John Irvine Little.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2018
• HerausgeberIn: Little, John Irvine,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Interpretations 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 Can...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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, 1864-1865
• 6. 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?
• Credits
• Bibliography