Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood.
Trade Review'This beautifully illustrated book is very well written and impeccably documented and edited... It deserves a place in any campus or personal library with a significant Quebec component... Highly recommended.' -- A.M. Rea Choice Magazine vol 50:06:2013 'This well-written and well-documented interdisciplinary study, juxtaposing literary and pictorial representations of the Quebec countryside... convincingly makes the case for the importance of landscape for understanding the Quebec psyche.' -- Warren Johnson The French Review, 88:1:2014 'William J. Berg provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of many works by Quebec visual and verbal artists... The quality of Berg's analysis of particular works of painting and literature is impeccable.' -- Louise H. Forsyth University of Toronto Quarterly, 83:2: 2014 'This is a hefty tome that does honor to its ambition with impressive feats of reading and looking and offers a useful compendium of key texts and paintings for scholarship... a welcome addition to the body of work on art and literature in Quebec as an overview of the field and as a foundation for other approaches.' -- William L. Coleman American Review of Canadian Studies, 44:3:2014
Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Landscape of Quebec: Nature and Culture, / Space and Place Chapter One: The French Heritage: From Utopia to Eden Chapter Two: Race, Place, and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Short Story Chapter Three: The Father's Land Lost: Country Versus versus City in the Early Novel
