Picturesque and the Sublime e-bog

Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome - even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "e;negative,"e; as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "e;Enthusiasm,"e; Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "e;Song to the Rising Sun,"e; and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art. Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country.