Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Landscape of Quebec: Nature and Culture, / Space and Place
Chapter One: The French Heritage: From Utopia to Eden
Chapter Two: Race, Place, and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Short Story
Chapter Three: The Father's Land Lost: Country Versus versus City in the Early Novel
Chapter Five: Impressionism and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth-Century
Chapter Six: Space, Place, and a Race That Will Not Die
Chapter Seven: Liberation and Modernity in the Wake of the War
Chapter Eight: From Solitude to Solidarity: La montagne secrète
Chapter Nine: From Confinement to Constellation: Le premier jardin
Chapter Ten: ‘My Land(scape) is Winte’
Conclusion: From Imagery to Identity

Endnotes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

William J. Berg is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

‘This beautifully illustrated book is very well written and impeccably documented and edited… It deserves a place in any campus or personal library with a significant Quebec component… Highly recommended.’ - A.M. Rea (Choice Magazine vol 50:06:2013) ‘This well-written and well-documented interdisciplinary study, juxtaposing literary and pictorial representations of the Quebec countryside... convincingly makes the case for the importance of landscape for understanding the Quebec psyche.’ - Warren Johnson (The French Review, 88:1:2014) ‘This is a hefty tome that does honor to its ambition with impressive feats of reading and looking and offers a useful compendium of key texts and paintings for scholarship... a welcome addition to the body of work on art and literature in QuÉbec as an overview of the field and as a foundation for other approaches.’ - William L. Coleman (American Review of Canadian Studies, 44:3:2014) ‘William J. Berg provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of many works by Quebec visual and verbal artists… The quality of Berg’s analysis of particular works of painting and literature is impeccable.’ - Louise H. Forsyth (University of Toronto Quarterly, 83:2: 2014)