Emigration, Nation, Vocation: The Literature of English Emigration to Canada, 1825–1900

Posted May 23rd, 2010 by immigratecanada and filed in Uncategorized

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Around 1825, the point at which emigration generally (and to Canada in particular) began to be seen as a cure for widespread poverty and joblessness in England, certain English writers began arguing that the vocation of middle-class emigrants was to recreate the English class system in Canada by becoming a new landed gentry. Carter Hanson calls this “the ideology of the landed vocation.” Emigration, Nation, Vocation explores how and why this ideology gained currency… More >>

Emigration, Nation, Vocation: The Literature of English Emigration to Canada, 1825–1900