Screen LibraryRestless men masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 /
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 colo...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137348944, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
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9781137348951 : 113734895X : |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: | 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 Par |