Restless Men

Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-34894-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4139 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downing, K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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…'

Über Autor(innen)

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.