From Conservative Alternative to Vanishing Frontier: Canada in American Travel Narratives, 1799-1899

• Published in: Canadian Review of American Studies
• Main Author: DOYLE, JAMES
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1974
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; History; Cultural Studies; Canada; Breton Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-05-01-03; https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/CRAS-05-01-03

To many nineteenth-century Americans, Canada was an enigma. "Neither a republic nor a monarchy, but merely a languid expectation of something undefined."1 declared Charles Dudley Warner on the basis of a visit to Cape Breton Island in 1874, and his remark is typical of the bemused disappro...