Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome - even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art.
Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811.009/3271
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0773517324 9780773567221
- LCCN
- PR9190.L35
- LCCN Item number
- G58 1998eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 212 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200891 (CaBNVSL)slc00200891 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)144084696 (CaOOCEL)400761
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- An Introductory Ramble through the Picturesque and the Sublime 16
- Canadian Prospects: Abram's Plain and Quebec Hill in Context 33
- "After the Beauty of Terror the Beauty of Peace": Notes on the Canadian Sublime 51
- The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm" 73
- The Keen Stars' Conflicting Message": Wordsworth, Shelley, and Charles G.D. Roberts' Ave 94
- New Provinces? or, In Acadia, No Ego 116
- Song to the Rising Sun 141
- Notes 168
- Index 220
- A 220
- B 220
- C 221
- D 221
- E 221
- F 221
- G 221
- H 222
- I 222
- J 222
- K 222
- L 222
- M 222
- N 223
- O 223
- P 223
- R 223
- S 224
- T 224
- V 224
- W 224
- Y 225
- Z 225
