Mapping Men and Empire

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-13772-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part 1 Mapping Adventures; Part 2 Mapping Men; Part 3 Mapping Empire; Part 4 Ambivalence in the Geography of Adventure; Part 5 Reading and Resistance; Part 6 Unmapping Adventures; Part 7 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Phillips is lecturer in Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.