Title Transatlantic Upper Canada : portraits in literature, land, and British-Indigenous relations / Kevin Hutchings

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 288 pages) : illustrations Series McGill-Queen's transatlantic studies ; 2 McGill-Queen's transatlantic studies ; 2. Contents Preface -- Introduction Literature, Land, and Colonial Relations -- 1. Romantic Ecology, Indigenous Culture, and the Ideology of "Improvement" -- 2. Bishop John Strachan, Christian Evangelism, and the First Nations of Upper Canada -- 3. The Legal, Literary, and Environmental Passions of Sir John Beverley Robinson -- 4. Anna Brownell Jameson and Sir Francis Bond Head among the Anishinaabeg -- 5. The Transatlantic World of John Norton (Chief Teyoninhokarawen) -- 6. John Brant (Chief Ahyonwaeghs) and the Grand River Haudenosaunee -- 7. Peter Jones (Chief Kahkewaquonaby) and the Credit River Mississauga -- 8. The Atlantic Crossings of George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) -- Afterword Paths Not Taken -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "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. "-- Provided by publisher Analysis HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867) LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Canadian literature -- Ontario -- 19th century -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Romanticism. Ecology in literature. Environmentalism in literature. romanticism (form of expression) LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian British colonies Canadian literature Canadian literature -- Indian authors Ecology Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature International relations Romanticism SUBJECT Ontario -- Environmental conditions Ontario -- Relations -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Relations -- Ontario Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660 Subject America Great Britain Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 0228002656 9780228002666 0228002664 9780228002659

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