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The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780773567221
DOI
10.1515/9780773567221
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12662118 bytes)
Pages
225\225
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 20:04:30

Description

Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque.

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