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The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
While Thomas James is not widely known today, this was not always the case: his 1633 publication The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James was, until the early nineteenth century, the British public's primary source of information about what we now know as northern Canada. The account of his attempt to find the Northwest Passage and the winter he spent on an island in James Bay made his name synonymous with exploration and the north. Over the centuries James's narrative was used to compile travel books and to compose philosophical treatises, histories, children's books, as well as poetry and novels - most notably, it influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancien...
The Spectral Arctic
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories o...
Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography
Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or Pacificus, from the semi-fantastic Wild Wood to real-world places like Canada’s North, Chicago’s World Fair, or the modern urban garden. What happens to young protagonists who explore new worlds, whether fantastic or realistic? What happens when Old World and New World myths collide? How do Indigenous myth and sense of place figure in books for the young? How do environmental or post-colonial concerns, history, memory, or even the unconscious affect an author...
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Une histoire d'amour-haine: L'Empire britannique en Amérique du Nord
Une histoire d’amour-haine raconte la saga de la naissance de l’Empire britannique en Amérique du Nord. Pour les Britanniques, le rêve de dominer le monde passait par la conquête de l’Arctique, ce Nord mythique et indomptable où l’on a longtemps cherché une route vers l’Asie. Une histoire d’amour-haine retrace la trajectoire de ces peuples insulaires qui, partis des îles de brumes, de fantômes et de légendes, se sont imposés à la fois aux Autochtones et aux descendants de la Nouvelle-France. En s’appuyant sur les récits de voyage des moines irlandais reclus sur les îles de l’Atlantique, les épopées des Vikings, et sur les journaux de bord des navigateurs, marchands et pirates sous le règne d’Élizabeth Ire, l’anthropologue Gilles Bibeau raconte comment ces voyageurs ont mis en place les assises d’un empire au prix de terres volées, de vies fauchées et de corps suppliciés. Remontant vers ces temps anciens qui existèrent bien avant que l’Angleterre et la France ne fondent des colonies sur les mêmes terres, Une histoire d’amour-haine dresse le portrait millénaire d’un monde animé par la démesure et la frénésie de conquête.
New Directions in Media and Politics
It would be difficult to find a more interesting topic than the relationship between the news media and politics, especially given that Americans are now living in the "Twitter presidency" of Donald Trump. Academic research in the area of media and politics is rapidly breaking new ground to keep pace with prolific media developments and societal changes. This innovative, up-to-date text moves beyond rudimentary concepts and definitions to consider exciting research as well as practical applications that address monumental changes in media systems in the US and the world. This carefully crafted volume explores key questions posed by academics and practitioners alike, exposing students to rigo...
