Fashioning the Canadian Landscape: Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era

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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?
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