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Combined Academic Publishers represents North American university presses, including McGill-Queen’s, in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. This year CAP has launched Books Combined, a collaborative blog project with their member presses, developed to highlight our authors and the books that influenced their work. From the blog:
Better than anyone, we think scholars understand books’ potential, and how books, as repositories for ideas, can change us, and our perspective on the world. In bookscombined.com we’re asking scholars to write about the books that have had a significant impact on their lives – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
In her guest blog “Landscapes of Identity: Memory, Spaces and Things,” Joan Coutu, author of the forthcoming book, Then and Now, traces her academic work and interests in notions of place & identity back to four pieces of literature – a children’s book, a novel, an autobiography, and an academic essay.
Here’s an excerpt! (click here for the full post)
Coming from French-Canadian stock with a good dash of Scots and Irish, I am a legacy of Canada’s two imperial traditions. (My French-Irish-Canadian mother was never fully reconciled to the fact that I chose to study British art). I also grew up inPierre Trudeau’s Canada, where the French and English were nominally equal and multiculturalism was ‘Official’.
Most of my Toronto schoolmates were first-generation Canadians from Eastern Europe and the Philippines and we all sat in class and learned about the Rockies, the Prairies, the Canadian Shield, the Arctic and the Maritimes. Somehow, these divergent aspects all came together in a cohesive idea of Canada, of ethnicity, intersection of cultures, and place. It was also an era suffused with icons; billboards, signs, government documents, and school room posters of ethnically diverse peoples comingled with images of beavers, canoes, maple leafs, pine trees, rocks and water.
Recent Books Combined posts by MQUP authors
Jan Beveridge on the book that paid a ransom
Michael Ross on George Orwell and books about advertising
FORTHCOMING! Then and Now: Collecting and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England
By Joan Coutu
A fresh account of the British aristocracy’s relationship with the classical world.
In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals. By charting this changing preference within a broader study of material culture, Joan Coutu examines the evolving articulation of the English gentleman.
Then and Now consists of four case studies of mid-century collections. Three were amassed by young aristocrats – the Marquis of Rockingham, the Duke of Richmond, and the Earl of Huntingdon – who, consistent with their social standing, were touted as natural political leaders. Their collections evoke the concept of gentlemanly virtue through example, offering archetypes to encourage men toward acts of public virtue. As the aristocrats matured in the politically fractious realm of the 1760s, such virtue could become politicized. A fourth study focuses on Thomas Hollis, who used his collection to proselytize his own unique political ideology.
To learn more about this book, or to pre-order a copy, click here.
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