Home Feelings, 249: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement

by Jody Mason

Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first sustained analysis of the organization that became Frontier College in 1919. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, Home Feelings investigates how the reading camp movement used fiction, poetry, songs, newspapers, magazines,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773558861
• ISBN13: 9780773558861
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"