Niagara Companion, The
Subtitle: Explorers, Artists, and Writers at the Falls, from Discovery through the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: September 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780889204331
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Places & peoples: general interest; Sociology, Social Studies; History; History - General History; History: World; Ontario; Social Science / Popular Culture; Canada - General; Modern - 21st Century
Description: "In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie considers how three centuries of fine art depictions and travel narratives were influenced by the earliest European encounters with the waterfall. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness - a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevailed."--Jacket.