Research Catalog

Title

Images of the antipodes in the eighteenth century : a study in stereotyping / David Fausett.

Author

Fausett, David.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1995, c1994.

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Details

Description

viii, 231 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Cross/cultures ; 18

Uniform Title

Cross/cultures ; 18.

Subject

• Geographical myths > History > 18th century
• Voyages, Imaginary > History > 18th century
• Oceania > In literature

Genre/Form

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Myth, Reality, and Metaphor -- Images, Stereotypes -- Monsters -- 2. The Literary Background -- Utopias and Robinsonades -- Gildon's New Athens in Terra Australis (1720) -- A Voyage to the Antarctic Pole (1721) -- 3. Teratological Travels -- Gulliver (1726) -- Enrico Wanton (1749) -- 4. Fight or Flight -- Three Kingdoms -- The Adventures of Peter Wilkins -- The Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel -- 5. Ethical Schemes -- The Curious Voyages of a Philadelphian -- Captain Tompson's Island (1757) -- 6. History Takes Over -- The Demise of the Austral Utopia -- Robertson's Voyage (1766) -- 7. Pacific Perspectives -- Observing Venus in the South Seas -- Diderot's "Supplement" to Bougainville -- Retif de la Bretonne's Austral Discoveries -- 8. From Cannibals to Colonials -- Cook and the Grass Cove Incident -- The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) -- Fin-de-siEcle -- 9. A Century of Mutations -- Virtual Realities -- The Value of the Polytopia -- Taming the Monster.

ISBN

905183814X

OCLC

33038391

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library