Canadian wetlands : places and people / / by Rod Giblett

• Autore: Giblett Rodney James
• Pubblicazione: Bristol, United Kingdom : , : Intellect, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.9180971
• Soggetto topico: Wetlands - Canada; Wetland ecology - Canada; Culture
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. RobertsDouglas 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 metropolisChapter 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
• Sommario/riassunto: In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon againstthe grain, critiquing popular representations of wetlands and proposingalternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporaryCanadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, andby entering into dialogue with American writers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Canadian wetlands
• ISBN: 1-78320-251-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787248703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of natures, landscapes and environments.