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Transatlantic Upper Canada Kevin Hutchings

Transatlantic Upper Canada By Kevin Hutchings

Transatlantic Upper Canada by Kevin Hutchings


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An engaging environmental and literary history of Upper Canada focusing on British colonialism, Indigenous activism, and cross-cultural exchange.

Transatlantic Upper Canada Summary

Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature, Land, and British-Indigenous Relations by Kevin Hutchings

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.

Transatlantic Upper Canada Reviews

The authors succeed in telling a story which is at once eminently readable and engaging, brisk but scholarly - a narrative rooted in an ever-expanding literature on immigration, reception, and personal experience. British Review of Canadian Studies

About Kevin Hutchings

Kevin Hutchings is professor of English and university research chair at the University of Northern British Columbia and author of Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850 and Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics.

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NLS9780228001294
9780228001294
0228001293
Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature, Land, and British-Indigenous Relations by Kevin Hutchings
New
Paperback
McGill-Queen's University Press
2020-08-20
288
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