Table of Content
K. Stierstorfer: Introduction: Europe Imagines Canada; R. Wiebe: Archeology of a Novel: An Afterword to The Blue Mountains of China
‘In Between’: Canada in the View of European Pioneers and EmigrantsG. Bölling: ‘A New Athens Rising Near the Pole’?: The Canadian Experience in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (1769); H. Antor: Anna Brownell Jameson’s Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838): A European Woman’s View of the New World; K. Stierstorfer: ‘Capable of Great Improvemnet’: Catherine Parr Traill’s Images of Canada in The Young Emigrants (1826); M. Wust: Deserts and Visions of Paradies: The Representation of the Canadian Landscape in Advertisements and Guides for Canadian Immigrants; A.-R. Glaap, Destination and Destiny: Contemporary Canadian Plays on Immigrants ‘News from Abroad’: Canada in the View of European Travellers, Traders, and AdventurersM. Just: The Representation of Canada in Novels by Frederick Marryat and Robert Michael Ballantyne; M. Heinze: Victorians Abroad: Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope in Canada; I. Probst: ‘Alle diese Länder sind unbekannt’: Canada in Late 18th and Early 19th-Century German Travel Literature; R. Mc Gill: ‘A Canadian Literature?’: Elizabeth Smart and the Failures of Nationalism; E. Nowak: In Search of Cathaia – Voyages into the Unexpected; A. Kern-Stähler: Re-Enacting the Arctic Voyage: The North-West Passage in British LiteratureIII. ‘Reflections at Home’: Canada in the View of Recent European WritersCh. Innes: Stuffed Mooseheads: Canada as (Missing) Cliché in European Theatre; J. Skidmore : Cultural Reductionism and the Reception of Canadian Literature in Germany; S. Peters: Wildlife Abounds? The Photographic Deconstruction of a Canadian Cliché; L. Volkmann: ‘One Sees Only What One Knows’: German Popular Literature and Its Images of Canada; M. Richter: Canada as Role Model? Reflections of a Country in Post-War German Youth Fiction; M. Merkl: What Makes a Canadian? Strategies of Presenting Canadianness in Teaching Materials
About the author
Heinz Antor holds a chair at the English Department of the University of Cologne, Germany.Gordon Bölling teaches at the English Department of the University of Cologne, Germany.
Annette Kern-Stähler is Assistant Professor at the English Department at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
Klaus Stierstorfer is Professor for English Literature at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
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