Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure

Voorkant
Psychology Press, 1997 - 208 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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MAPPING ADVENTURES
23
MAPPING
48
MAPPING EMPIRE
68
AMBIVALENCE IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF ADVENTURE
89
READING AND RESISTANCE
113
UNMAPPING ADVENTURES
156
Notes
170
Index
183
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Richard Phillips is lecturer in Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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