I S Maclaren
Biographic Data
| ID | 1348585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I S Maclaren |
| GIVEN NAMES | I S |
| FAMILY NAME | Maclaren |
| SIGNATURE | MACLAREN I S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
In consideration of the evolution of explorers and travellers into authors
Contemporary reading practices exert considerable pressure on the narratives of explorers and travellers; consequently, an inextricable identity is usually assumed between the eyewitness observer and the first-person narrator. Since the time of Hakluyt, not discriminating among accounts written during and after journeys and voyages, or not interrogating the implications for critical interpretation of the stage of narrative under examination have …
Tracing the Connected Narrative
Writing Geographical Exploration
Canada and the Idea of North, by Sherrill E. Grace
Today, most Inuit on Baffin Island live in modern settlements. However, they remain deeply proud of their forebears who survived and thrived in one of the world's most difficult environments. The tapestries are an expression of this pride. As weaver Leesee Kakee says, "some people might think these are just wall hangings, but they are a part of us, our ancestors, our lives" (p. 7)
Explorers' and Travelers' Narratives
Researchers keen to examine the representation of native people in European accounts of exploration and travel need bring under review the mechanism by which field notes became books, and, once they were books, the multiplicity and diffusion of editions, often themselves quite different from one another. An example that illustrates well this need is British Royal Naval Captain James Cook's posthumously published account of his third voyage to the…
Searching for Franklin
From Exploration to Publication
Relations between explorers of early Canada and their English publishers are sufficiently complex as to call into question the customary straightforward equation that readers draw between explorers' eyewitness experience and the narrative account of them, issued some time after their return to England. Captain Cook's first published narrative is the notorious case in point. Narratives of exploration played important roles in the establishment of …
A Frenchman in Search of Franklin
Samuel Hearne and the printed word
The publication of M.J. Brand's note, 'Samuel Hearne and the massacre at Bloody Falls' (Polar Record 28 (166): 229-232), occasions the need for a delineation of some of the bibliographical aspects of Hearne's famous narrative (Hearne 1795). Rehearsing the well-known story of the massacre on 17 July 1771 of Inuit by Chipewyan and Copper Indians eight miles upstream from the mouth of the Coppermine River, Brand relies on familiar sources for a reca…
Washington Irving's Problems With History and Romance in Astoria
The stories of these Sinbads of the wilderness made the life of a trapper perfect romance to me."1 Thus Washington Irving introduced his account of Astoria, the first American attempt at continental commercialism. John Jacob Astor, a Rhenish immigrant who became the United States's first businessman "to attain colossal wealth," launched his dream from New York over a three-and-one-half year period beginning in the summer of 1810, when a ship load…
The pastoral and the wilderness in early Canada
The Canadian conservative ideology of an ordered controlled environment distinguished it from its revolutionary American neighbour. The ideology frequently involved Pastoral attitudes to nature. Only occasionally before the twentieth century did Canadian writers reveal negative views of their country's terrain
The Aesthetic Map of the North, 1845-1859
The aesthetics of the Sublime and the Picturesque comprised the perceptual baggage with which early nineteenth-century British explorers and travellers combed the globe. As important to their identification of space as measurements of longitude and latitude, these two schemata governed the ways in which the Canadian Arctic was described and depicted during the British search for a Northwest Passage from 1819 to 1859. During the last ten years of …
Explorers' and Travelers' Narratives
Researchers keen to examine the representation of native people in European accounts of exploration and travel need bring under review the mechanism by which field notes became books, and, once they were books, the multiplicity and diffusion of editions, often themselves quite different from one another. An example that illustrates well this need is British Royal Naval Captain James Cook's posthumously published account of his third voyage to the…
The Aesthetic Map of the North, 1845-1859
The aesthetics of the Sublime and the Picturesque comprised the perceptual baggage with which early nineteenth-century British explorers and travellers combed the globe. As important to their identification of space as measurements of longitude and latitude, these two schemata governed the ways in which the Canadian Arctic was described and depicted during the British search for a Northwest Passage from 1819 to 1859. During the last ten years of …
The pastoral and the wilderness in early Canada
The Canadian conservative ideology of an ordered controlled environment distinguished it from its revolutionary American neighbour. The ideology frequently involved Pastoral attitudes to nature. Only occasionally before the twentieth century did Canadian writers reveal negative views of their country's terrain
Washington Irving's Problems With History and Romance in Astoria
The stories of these Sinbads of the wilderness made the life of a trapper perfect romance to me."1 Thus Washington Irving introduced his account of Astoria, the first American attempt at continental commercialism. John Jacob Astor, a Rhenish immigrant who became the United States's first businessman "to attain colossal wealth," launched his dream from New York over a three-and-one-half year period beginning in the summer of 1810, when a ship load…
A Frenchman in Search of Franklin
Samuel Hearne and the printed word
The publication of M.J. Brand's note, 'Samuel Hearne and the massacre at Bloody Falls' (Polar Record 28 (166): 229-232), occasions the need for a delineation of some of the bibliographical aspects of Hearne's famous narrative (Hearne 1795). Rehearsing the well-known story of the massacre on 17 July 1771 of Inuit by Chipewyan and Copper Indians eight miles upstream from the mouth of the Coppermine River, Brand relies on familiar sources for a reca…
From Exploration to Publication
Relations between explorers of early Canada and their English publishers are sufficiently complex as to call into question the customary straightforward equation that readers draw between explorers' eyewitness experience and the narrative account of them, issued some time after their return to England. Captain Cook's first published narrative is the notorious case in point. Narratives of exploration played important roles in the establishment of …
Searching for Franklin
Canada and the Idea of North, by Sherrill E. Grace
Today, most Inuit on Baffin Island live in modern settlements. However, they remain deeply proud of their forebears who survived and thrived in one of the world's most difficult environments. The tapestries are an expression of this pride. As weaver Leesee Kakee says, "some people might think these are just wall hangings, but they are a part of us, our ancestors, our lives" (p. 7)
Explorers' and Travelers' Narratives
Researchers keen to examine the representation of native people in European accounts of exploration and travel need bring under review the mechanism by which field notes became books, and, once they were books, the multiplicity and diffusion of editions, often themselves quite different from one another. An example that illustrates well this need is British Royal Naval Captain James Cook's posthumously published account of his third voyage to the…
Tracing the Connected Narrative
Writing Geographical Exploration
In consideration of the evolution of explorers and travellers into authors
Contemporary reading practices exert considerable pressure on the narratives of explorers and travellers; consequently, an inextricable identity is usually assumed between the eyewitness observer and the first-person narrator. Since the time of Hakluyt, not discriminating among accounts written during and after journeys and voyages, or not interrogating the implications for critical interpretation of the stage of narrative under examination have …
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
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