Goldie The Idea of the Antipodes

Place, People, and Voices
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-135-27217-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldie, Matthew Boyd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Greek and Roman Conceptions of Antipodes 2. Medieval Ideas of Antipodes 3. The Antipodes During the Early Modern Period: Richard Brome's The Antipodes 4. The Antipodes in 18th and 19th Century Travel Writing 5. The Antipodes in 20th Century Literature 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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