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The Noble Savage in the New World Garden Notes toward a Syntactics of Place Gaile McGregor "Assuming [as McGregor says] that the landscape will play a key role in any colonial imagination," she begins her investigation with an examination of the conventions in terms of which the earliest settlers were accustomed to image/structure their relations with nature. From there McGregor zeros in on the iconic figure whose attributes most saliently express/mediate/displace the problematic aspects of those relations. Tracing its "transforms" from the Puritan captivity tale through the nineteenth-century wilderness romance all the way to contemporary science fiction, what she ends up with is at once a literary history of the Noble Savage and a comprehensive metamorphology of the American mind. Wide-ranging and deep-diving, this book suggests many reevaluations of American heroes and attitudes. The Noble Savage in the New World Garden is part of a series of comparative semio-ethonographic studies of English-speaking post-frontier cultures. It was preceded in 1985 by The Wacousta Syndrome: Explorations in the Canadian Landscape (University of Toronto Press). Dr. Gaile McGregor is a cultural analyst. She has studied and taught literature, cultural history, and sociology at Carleton University, the universities of Western Ontario and Manitoba, and York University. She lives in London, Ontario, and Otter Lake, Quebec. Popular Press, an imprint of the UW Press Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

Published 1988 LC: 87-072549 PS 366 pp.  6 x 9 Paper $17.95 t ISBN 978-0-87972-417-7 ADD TO CART

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