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Book SynopsisIn 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 toAmerica, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.
Trade Review"...Little’s essays suggest that nineteenth-century tourism provides a significant vantage point for understanding the interplay of different discourses and performances of ‘nation’ that occurred within the Dominion’s borders." -- Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto * Histoire Sociale/Social History, vol 52 no 105, May '19 *
"Why visit Canada but for its awe-inspiring natural spaces and picturesque villages? J.I. Little’s collection of essays details how travel writers from Britain, the United States, and Canada situated landscape at the center of Canadian identity and Canada’s purpose in the world. A collection of eight revised and two new essays carry the reader over 150 years and across what has become Canada, revealing ways in which writers connected identity to colonial landscape transformation." -- Rebecca Mancuso *
American Review of Canadian Studies *
"Little’s contribution comes from looking deeply at how a wide variety of landscapes in the provinces that are now Canada have been fashioned. The deep study of specific landscapes makes this collection a rewarding read." -- Eleanor Bird, Lancaster University *
British Journal of Canadian Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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, 1858-71 4 Scenic Tourism on the Northeastern 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, 1864-65 6 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham's Quebec Essays in Harper's Magazine, 1883-89 7 'A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people': Travellers, Tourism, and the Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1859-1920 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?
