Restless Men
Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Restless Men “
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...'
Autoren-Porträt von K. Downing, Pat Kirkham
Karen Downing is a Visitor in the School of History at The Australian National University, Australia. She has a PhD from the Australian National University where she has taught gender and historiography and theory courses. Currently she is the assistant editor of History Australia.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: K. Downing , Pat Kirkham
- 2014, 2014., 237 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137348941
- ISBN-13: 9781137348944
Sprache:
Englisch
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