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Finlayson, Carolyn Janene.

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"The habit of close observation": An ecocritical investigation of Catharine Parr Traill's nature writing in "Studies of Plant Life in Canada".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The habit of close observation": An ecocritical investigation of Catharine Parr Traill's nature writing in "Studies of Plant Life in Canada"./
Author:	Finlayson, Carolyn Janene.
Description:	129 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 37-01, page: 0068.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International37-01.
Subject:	Literature, Canadian (English). -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MQ30675
ISBN:	0612306755

"The habit of close observation": An ecocritical investigation of Catharine Parr Traill's nature writing in "Studies of Plant Life in Canada".
Finlayson, Carolyn Janene.

"The habit of close observation": An ecocritical investigation of Catharine Parr Traill's nature writing in "Studies of Plant Life in Canada". - 129 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 37-01, page: 0068.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Western Ontario (Canada), 1998.

Catharine Parr Traill's attitudes towards the Canadian landscape have traditionally been based on her work in The Backwoods of Canada (1836). Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1885), the most scientific of her literary texts, has been largely ignored by contemporary critics, yet in its blending of scientific and poetic vocabularies, local history, social commentary, and personal and spiritual reflections within the structure of the botanical guidebook, it provides a portrait of how Traill established a "sense of place" for herself and for her readers. Using environmental literary criticism as a broad theoretical framework, this thesis examines the strategies that Traill uses to combine competing discourses of preservation and development within her most ecologically-aware text. Also investigated are Traill's position in the history of Canadian science, her use of memory, language, naming, and her depiction of the lives of early settlers and Native communities in creating a sense of place.

ISBN: 0612306755Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022372
Literature, Canadian (English).

"The habit of close observation": An ecocritical investigation of Catharine Parr Traill's nature writing in "Studies of Plant Life in Canada".
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