Mapping Men and Empire: Geographies of AdventureRoutledge, 28 okt 2013 - 224 pagina's First published in 1996. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European people and places. In the exotic, uncomplicated and malleable settings of stories like Robinson Crusoe, they make it possible to imagine, and to naturalise and normalise, identities that might seem implausible closer to home. This book discusses the geography of literature and looking at where adventure stories chart colonies and empires, projecting European geographical fantasies onto non-European, real geographies, including the Americas, Africa and Australasia. |
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Adventures in the New World | 1 |
Robinson Crusoe and some Victorian Robinsonades | 22 |
Spaces of Adventure and Constructions of Masculinity in The Young Fur Traders | 45 |
Space for Boyish Men and Manly Boys in the Australian Interior | 68 |
Home and Away in Daughters of the Dominion | 89 |
Anarchy and Antiimperialism in French Extraordinary Voyages | 113 |
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Aborigines adventure literature ambivalent Anon argues Ballantyne 1856 Ballantyne’s boys Britain British colonies British Empire British imperial Canadian Crusoes cannibals Charley Christian civilisation Coetzee colonial geography confined constructions contemporary Coral Island critical Crusoe’s cultural space defined Defoe Defoe’s Discovery Edwardian periods emigration empire encounter Ernest Favenc European example extraordinary voyages Favenc fiction figure find first Foigny Foigny’s Friday Gabriel de Foigny gender geographical fantasies geographical imaginations geographies and identities geography of adventure girls and women Golding’s heroines identities and geographies illustrates images imaginary voyages imaginative geography incognita Jules Verne literary magazines male manliness Marchant masculinist metaphorical naturalised Nell’s nineteenth century novel Paganel particular Plate politics popular post-colonial published readers realistic reflect Robinson Crusoe Robinsonades Sadeur Sauer Selvon settlement simplified social spaces of adventure specifically subvert Tournier Treasure Island undated unknown unmap Verne Verne’s Victorian violent western Canada Young Fur Traders