European Perceptions of Terra AustralisAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012 - 314 páginas "Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies."--publisher website. |
Índice
1 Perceptions | 1 |
2 Terra Australis and the
Idea of the Antipodes | 9 |
3 The Roman South | 45 |
From the Mappaemundi to Shakespeares Othello | 61 |
Identity Problems and Fiction | 83 |
The Mémoires of the Abbé Jean Paulmier | 111 |
Spanish Perceptions of the
South Pacific 15671794 | 135 |
The Baudin Expedition and the Politics of Nomenclature in the Terres Australes | 165 |
9 Who Do You Trust? Discrepancies Between the Official and Unofficial Sources | 185 |
Global Networks of Slavery and
Sociability | 211 |
11 Recovering the Imperial Context of the MidVictorian Exploration of
Northern Australia 185557 | 233 |
Changing Perceptions of Terra Australis | 247 |
| 273 | |
| 301 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
European Perceptions of Terra Australis Alfred Hiatt,Christopher Wortham Vista previa restringida - 2016 |
European Perceptions of Terra Australis Alfred Hiatt,Christopher Wortham Vista previa restringida - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aboriginal Abrolhos Africa antipodes appears Australia Batavia Bibliothèque nationale British Library Cape Captain cartographers century chapter charts coastline colony context cultural Dampier depicted Dieppe maps discovery Dutch early modern earth east coast edition eighteenth-century European exploration Favenc Figure French geographical globe Gonneville Gonneville’s Gorgon Gulliver’s Travels Holland Ibid indigenous inscriptions Islands Jagiellonian Globe Java Jave journey King landmass London Louis Louis de Freycinet Macrobius Malaspina Marco Polo’s Matthew Flinders medieval names narrative nationale de France naval navigator Nicolas Baudin ofAustralia ofit ofthe oikoumene orbis Pacific Paris Parker Paulmier perceptions Péron Perth Port Jackson Portuguese Ptolemy’s published Quirós representation Reproduced with permission Roman Rose de Freycinet settlement Shark Bay ship slavery South Wales southern continent southern land Spanish Sumbawa Sydney T-O map Terra Australis Terre Napoléon translation Trickett University unknown Vallard voyage Western Australia Western Australian William Dampier world map wreck zone