Canadian Travellers in Europe, 1851-1900

Bibliographic Data

ID19891416
AuthorsEva-Marie Kroller, Eva‐marie Kröller (corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCanadian Travellers in Europe, 1851-1900 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of British Columbia Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780774856874
OpenAlexW2009808136
Open LibraryOL44240996M
ISBN9780774856874
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This book provides both a detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the nineteenth century and an unusual perspective on Canadian cultural history. The Canadians who wrote about their experiences abroad during the era of mass travel which followed the advent of the steamship reveal much about themselves and their own country as well. Who were these travellers, why did they travel, and what did they expect to see? In answering these questions, Eva-Marie Kroller draws upon a wide variety of materials: novels, guide books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, paintings, and previously unpublished letters and diaries. The self-assured progress of the privileged Canadian travellers often turned into introspective voyages of self-discovery. For one thing, Europeans often mistook them for Americans, and many had to ask themselves what it really meant to be Canadian. In addition, the tone of moral earnestness which pervades the early travellers' tales begins to give way to a certain world-weariness by the end. In Canada and elsewhere, the “tourist” was a new phenomenon at the beginning of the period, but an accepted part of the modern world by the end of it. Canadian Travellers in Europe will be required reading for devotees of travel writing, but it is also a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Canadian history

Geography · Canadian Identity and History · History · description and travel · Europe

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