Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of
dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the
colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature,
ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. In
the first detailed study of literary interactions between Indigenous
people and colonial authorities in Upper Canada and Britain, Kevin
Hutchings analyzes the period's key figures and the central role that
romanticism, ecology, and environment played in their writings.
Investigating the ties that bound Upper Canada and Great Britain
together during the early nineteenth century, Transatlantic Upper
Canada demonstrates the existence of a cosmopolitan culture whose
implications for the land and its people are still felt today. The
book examines the writings of Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and
John Brant and Anishinabeg authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter
Jones, and George Copway, as well as European figures John Beverley
Robinson, John Strachan, Anna Brownell Jameson, and Sir Francis Bond
Head. Hutchings argues that, despite their cultural differences, many
factors connected these writers, including shared literary interests,
cross-Atlantic journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual
acquaintance, and engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous
territory and governance. A close examination of relationships between
peoples and their understandings of land, Transatlantic Upper Canada
creates a rich portrait of the nineteenth-century British Atlantic
world and the cultural and environmental consequences of colonialism
and resistance.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780228002666
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter