Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture /

Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture / / ed. by Heinz Antor, Gordon Bölling, Annette Kern-Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer.

Ever since the first exploratory expeditions in the early modern period, North America has epitomized to Europeans a promise and the hope for the fulfilment of great expectations, be it of more freedom, greater wealth, social liberation or religious tolerance. While numerous features in this dialogi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
ANTOR, HEINZ,
BÖLLING, GORDON,
GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER,
HEINZE, MICHAEL,
INNES, CHRISTOPHER,
JUST, MELANIE,
KERN-STÄHLER, ANNETTE,
MCGILL, ROBERT,
MERKL, MATTHIAS,
NOWAK, ELKE,
PETERS, SUSANNE,
PROBST, INGMAR,
RICHTER, MIRIAM,
SKIDMORE, JAMES Μ .,
STIERSTORFER, KLAUS,
VOLKMANN, LAURENZ,
WIEBE, RUDY,
WUST, MARKUS,
HerausgeberIn:
Antor, Heinz,
Bölling, Gordon,
Kern-Stähler, Annette,
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2005
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Canada from European Perspectives
  • The Archeology of a Novel: An Afterword to The Blue Mountains of China
  • In Between: Canada in the View of European Pioneers and Emigrants
  • “A New Athens Rising Near the Pole”?: The Canadian Experience in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (1769)
  • Anna Brownell Jameson’s Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838): A European Woman’s View of the New World
  • “Capable of Great Improvement”: Catharine Parr Traill’s Images of Canada in The Young Emigrants (1826)
  • Deserts and Visions of Paradise: The Representation of the Canadian Landscape in Advertisements and Guides for Canadian Immigrants
  • Destination and Destiny: Contemporary Canadian Plays on Immigrants
  • News From Abroad: Canada in the View of European Travellers, Traders, and Adventurers
  • The Representation of Canada in Novels by Frederick Marryat and Robert Michael Ballantyne
  • Victorians Abroad: Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope in Canada
  • “Alle diese Länder sind unbekannt”: Canada in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century German Travel Literature
  • “A Canadian Literature?”: Elizabeth Smart and the Failures of Nationalism
  • In Search of Cathaia – Voyages into the Unexpected
  • Re-Enacting the Arctic Voyage: The Northwest Passage in British Literature
  • Reflections at Home: Canada in the View of Recent European Writers
  • Stuffed Mooseheads: Canada as (Missing) Cliché in European Theatre
  • Cultural Reductionism and the Reception of Canadian Literature in Germany
  • Wildlife Abounds? The Photographic Deconstruction of a Canadian Cliché in Robert Gernhardt’s Satire “Blanket Creek oder Verwilderte Wünsche”
  • “One Sees Only What One Knows”: German Popular Literature and its Images of Canada
  • Canada as a Role Model? Reflections of a Country in Post-War German Youth Fiction
  • What makes a Canadian? Strategies of Presenting Canadianness in Teaching Materials
  • List of Contributors
  • 302-304

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