Restless men : masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840

著者

    • Downing, Karen

書誌事項

Restless men : masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840

Karen Downing

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index

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内容説明・目次

内容説明

Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties.

目次

Introduction: Restless men 1. Confined by the Gout - Perceptions of Men's Physical Health 2. The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul - Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery 3. My Head Filled Early With Rambling Thoughts - Raising Boys and Making Men 4. Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea - Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes 5. To Think That This Was All My Own - Land, Independence and Emigration 6. The Middle Station of Life - the Anxieties of Social Mobility 7. A Surprising Change of Circumstances - Men's Ambivalent Relationship with Authority 8. The Centre of All My Enterprises - the Paradox of Families Conclusion: 'Robinson Crusoe untravelled...'

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