Wild Things Nature, Culture and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914

Name: Wild Things Nature, Culture and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914
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ISBN: 9780802006844

ISBN-10: 0802006841

ISBN-13: 9780802006844

Edition: 2nd 1995

Authors: Patricia Jasen

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Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 8/15/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 194
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Patricia Jasen is a professor in the Department of History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Tourism


Tourists, Travellers, and the Semiotics of Tourism


Tourism and Romanticism


Tourism and Colonialism


Who's Speaking? Class, Gender, and the Nature of Travel Narrative



Taming Niagara


Terror and Transcendence


The Romantic Itinerary


Doing Niagara, or Niagara Undone



Wilderness Panorama


Fairy Isles and Voyageurs


The St Lawrence River Excursion


An Image Transferred


From Nature to Culture



Native Lands


The Iconography of the Upper Lakes


Victorian Excursionists


Colonizing Eyes


The Romance Fades



A Rest Cure in a Canoe


Rest Cures and Racial Health


Class, Gender, and the Wilderness Holiday


My Heart is in Muskoka


Day Trippers



Close Encounters


White Tourists and Native Guides


Up the Nipigon


Temagami and Beyond


The Politics of Race


Conclusion


Notes


Index


Picture Credits