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- Title
Ocean liners in Canadian literature.
- Authors
Hammill, Faye
- Abstract
Ocean liners in Canadian literature This article explores the idea of the ocean liner in the Canadian literary imagination, asking how it has transformed from a functional machine into a powerful symbol, and how it has become a focus for dreams and terrors. The research encompasses English Canadian and French Canadian novels and poems which represent the passenger experience on a liner. Beginning with narratives of emigration, the discussion moves on to travel writing in the context of empire and then to stories of shipwreck and of war, fictions of the voyage as rite of passage, evocations of the glamour of interwar liner travel, and finally to writing about holidays.
- Subjects
OCEAN liners; CANADIAN literature; FRENCH-Canadians; FRENCH fiction; TRAVEL writing; WAR stories; TRAVEL literature
- Publication
British Journal of Canadian Studies, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0269-9222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/bjcs.2023.2