European perceptions of Terra Australis

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European perceptions of Terra Australis

edited by Anne M. Scott ... [et. al.]

Ashgate, c2011

  • : hbk

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Other editors: Alfred Hiatt, Claire Mcilroy, Christopher Wortham

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-299) and index

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内容説明

Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.

目次

  • Contents: Perceptions, Anne M. Scott
  • Terra Australis and the idea of the Antipodes, Alfred Hiatt
  • The Roman South, Bill Leadbetter
  • Meanings of the South: from the Mappaemundi to Shakespeare's Othello, Christopher Wortham
  • Terra Australis, Jave la Grande and Australia: identity problems and fiction, W.A.R. (Bill) Richardson
  • Mapping Terra Australis in the French 17th century: the Memoires of the Abbe Jean Paulmier, Margaret Sankey
  • Ceremonial encounters: Spanish perceptions of the South Pacific 1567-1794, Mercedes Maroto Camino
  • Naming and shaming: the Baudin expedition and the politics of nomenclature in the Terres Australes, Jen Fornasiero and John West-Sooby
  • Who do you trust? Discrepancies between the 'official and unofficial' sources recording explorers' perceptions of places and their people, Michael McCarthy
  • 'My own slender remarks': global networks of slavery and sociability in Mary Ann Parker's Voyage to New South Wales (1795), Katrina O'Loughlin
  • Recovering the imperial context of the mid-Victorian exploration of Northern Australia, 1855-57, Norman Etherington
  • The wicked and the fair: changing perceptions of Terra Australis through the prism of the Batavia shipwreck (1629), Leigh T.I. Penman
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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