05418nam 2200829 450 991081991940332120230912130223.00-8020-7638-61-282-00315-197866120031581-4426-8349-X10.3138/9781442683495(CKB)2420000000004553(OCoLC)244766804(CaPaEBR)ebrary10195525(SSID)ssj0000313305(PQKBManifestationID)11223189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313305(PQKBWorkID)10354217(PQKB)11680005(CaPaEBR)417607(CaBNvSL)thg00600108(DE-B1597)465119(OCoLC)944177183(DE-B1597)9781442683495(Au-PeEL)EBL4672258(CaPaEBR)ebr11257932(OCoLC)815763511(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/455vh1(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417607(MiAaPQ)EBC4672258(OCoLC)1389606330(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105537(MiAaPQ)EBC3250414(EXLCZ)99242000000000455320160922h19951995 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWild things nature, culture, and tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 /Patricia JasenToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1995.©19951 online resource (241 p.)HeritageIncludes index.0-8020-0684-1 0-8020-8740-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-183) and index.""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""Annotation"Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's disappearing wilderness." "Jasen situates her work within the context of recent writings about tourism history and the semiotics of tourism, about landscape perception and images of 'wildness' and 'wilderness, ' and about the travel narrative as a literary genre. She explores a number of major themes, including the imperialistic appropriation and commercialization of landscape into tourist images, services, and souvenirs. In a study of class, gender, and race, Jasen finds that by the end of the century most workers still had little opportunity for travel, while the middle classes had come to regard holidays as a right and a duty in the light of Social Darwinist concerns about preserving the health of the 'race.' Women travellers have been disregarded or marginalized in many studies of the history of tourism, but this book makes their presence known and analyses their experience. It also examines, against the backdrop of nineteenth-century racism and expansionism, the major role played by Native people in the tourist industry."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.TourismOntarioHistoryEcotourismOntarioHistoryOntariogndOntariofastLivres numeriques.History.e-books.Electronic books. TourismHistory.EcotourismHistory.338.4/791713Jasen Patricia1638068MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819919403321Wild things3980245UNINA