Mapping Men and Empire
Geographies of Adventure
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2013
216 pages
978-1-135-63656-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white
File size
14,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-63656-2 (9781135636562)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
11/1996
1st Edition
Routledge
€282.26
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Book
11/1996
1st Edition
Routledge
€94.27
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Person
Richard Phillips is lecturer in Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Content
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;
