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The picturesque and the sublime : a poetics of the Canadian landscape

Presents the cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, this work places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque.
Print Book, English, 2000
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McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
9780773521353, 9780773517325, 0773521356, 0773517324
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An introductory ramble through the picturesque and the sublime
Canadian prospects: Abram's Plain and Quebec Hill in context
"after the beauty of terror the beauty of peace": notes on the Canadian sublime
The waxing and waning of Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm"
"The Keen stars'conflicting message": Wordsworth, Shelley, and Charles G.D. Roberts' Ave
New Provinces? or, In Acadia, No Ego
Song to the rising sun