Wild Things : Nature, Culture, and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Heritage Series .
- Heritage Series .
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. 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 -- 2. Taming Niagara -- Terror and Transcendence -- The Romantic Itinerary -- Doing Niagara, or Niagara Undone -- 3. Wilderness Panorama -- Fairy Isles and Voyageurs -- The St Lawrence River Excursion -- An Image Transferred -- From Nature to Culture -- 4. Native Lands -- The Iconography of the Upper Lakes -- Victorian Excursionists -- Colonizing Eyes -- The Romance Fades -- 5. A Rest Cure in a Canoe -- Rest Cures and Racial Health -- Class, Gender, and the Wilderness Holiday -- My Heart Is in Muskoka -- Day Trippers -- 6. Close Encounters -- White Tourists and Native Guides -- Up the Nipigon -- Temagami and Beyond -- The Politics of Race -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- PICTURE CREDITS -- Illustrations.
The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Thingsalso makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America.