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Canadian Wetlands : Places and People.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Issn SeriesPublisher: Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783202515
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Canadian WetlandsDDC classification:
  • 810.9360905
LOC classification:
  • QH541.5.M3 .G384 20
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Canadian wetlands culture: Past and present -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon -- Notes -- Chapter 3: 'In the Acadian land' of Evangeline: The marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow's literary legacy -- Acadian Grand Pré -- Longfellow's Evangeline -- Present pressures and future prospects -- Chapter 4: 'The marsh lies rich and wanton': The Tantramar Marshes, Charles G. D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead -- Charles G. D. Roberts -- Douglas Lochhead -- Present pressures and future prospects -- Notes -- Chapter 5: 'Noisome marsh' and 'incurable marshes': Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula -- Note -- Chapter 6: 'A swampy flat': Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta -- Chapter 7: A city 'set in malarial lakeside swamps': Toronto and Ashbridge's Bay Marsh -- Marshy and military beginnings -- Sublime city in a swampy wilderness and in a melancholy marsh -- Disease and health -- Waterbird habitat and uncanny place -- Marshlands as liminal space -- Mourning and reclamation -- Mapping the marsh and the metropolis -- Chapter 8: 'Land and water disputed empire': Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau -- Note -- Chapter 9: 'Quaking morass': The marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold -- Chapter 10: 'Smelling the Old Marsh, I knew I was home': Harry Thurston's marshes of Nova Scotia and the future of Canadian wetlands culture -- References -- Index -- BackCover.
Summary: In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett critiques the Canadian canon's popular representation of wetlands and proposes alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Canadian wetlands culture: Past and present -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon -- Notes -- Chapter 3: 'In the Acadian land' of Evangeline: The marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow's literary legacy -- Acadian Grand Pré -- Longfellow's Evangeline -- Present pressures and future prospects -- Chapter 4: 'The marsh lies rich and wanton': The Tantramar Marshes, Charles G. D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead -- Charles G. D. Roberts -- Douglas Lochhead -- Present pressures and future prospects -- Notes -- Chapter 5: 'Noisome marsh' and 'incurable marshes': Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula -- Note -- Chapter 6: 'A swampy flat': Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta -- Chapter 7: A city 'set in malarial lakeside swamps': Toronto and Ashbridge's Bay Marsh -- Marshy and military beginnings -- Sublime city in a swampy wilderness and in a melancholy marsh -- Disease and health -- Waterbird habitat and uncanny place -- Marshlands as liminal space -- Mourning and reclamation -- Mapping the marsh and the metropolis -- Chapter 8: 'Land and water disputed empire': Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau -- Note -- Chapter 9: 'Quaking morass': The marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold -- Chapter 10: 'Smelling the Old Marsh, I knew I was home': Harry Thurston's marshes of Nova Scotia and the future of Canadian wetlands culture -- References -- Index -- BackCover.

In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett critiques the Canadian canon's popular representation of wetlands and proposes alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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