Beyond the Land Itself
Views of Nature in Canada and the United States
Marcia B. Kline
Harvard University Press, 1970
Marcia Kline's work, which inaugurates a new series of student essays sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, utilizes illustrations from both fictional and nonfictional writing of the mid-nineteenth century to contrast the views of nature held in the United States and Canada during that period. Her conclusions note that while Americans romanticized their West, Canadians responded in terror to the natural world.
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