"Mason carefully surveys, astutely chooses, and concisely deploys a wide range of scholarship in sociology, history, literary criticism, and interdisciplinary theory to provide a unique window of understanding into relations between Canada's emergence into nation-statehood and its economic and immigration history." Donna Palmateer Pennee, University of Western Ontario " Home Feelings distinguishes itself for its tremendous research and critical insight. In constructing an analysis of the Canadian Reading Camp Association, the precursor to Frontier College, Mason offers insight into how reading and literacy were used in a citizenship-building project to form workers as liberal subjects and prevent the radicalization of immigrants. She draws on a range of primary sources - reports, letters, government documents - to construct a meticulously detailed historical account that allows her to form new theoretical insight about the ideological construction and functioning of reading and literacy. Mason is to be particularly commended for the impressive rigour of this book." Gabrielle Roy Prize jury " Home Feelings is an engaging book that makes a significant contribution to the history of Frontier College as an organization and the history of citizenship within the perspective of the Canadian liberal-order framework between 1900 and 1940. Here is a persuasive argument about the importance of maternal-feminist influences, literacy training, and the use of texts in the cultivation of liberal citizenship that was said to be universal in theory but failed to be inclusive in practice. Readers will find critical views about the beneficial function of reading and the certainty of literacy-as-progress, as well as insights into the relationship between illiberal social practices and print culture.

" American Review of Canadian Studies.