Matthew Boyd Goldie

The Idea of the Antipodes (eBook, ePUB)

Place, People, and Voices

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and bodily and humorous in the latest era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135272173
• Artikelnr.: 42981397

Autorenporträt

Matthew Boyd Goldie is Associate Professor of English at Rider University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Beside the Antipodes 1: Spots
in Time: Antipodean Place, Habitation, and Communication in the Ancient
World 2: Earthly Motions: The Antipodes in Medieval Geography and
Cartography 3: Returning Monsters: Gender, Sex, and Child-Getting in Early
Modern Britain 4: Britain in the Antipodes, Huahine in Britain: Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century Encounter Correspondence 5: Island Laughter:
Twentieth-Century Antipodean Literature Afterword: Global Antipodes in a
Virtual World Notes Bibliography Index