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Mapping Men and Empire: Geographies of Adventure

By Richard Phillips

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
0415137713, 9780415137713
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11634832 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
216\220
Time added
2024-04-26 13:34:39

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.

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