Restless Men [electronic resource] : Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 /
Downing, K.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 ..."
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.
Great Britain—History.
Literature.
Civilization—History.
Social history.
Islands of the Pacific—History.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literature, general.
Cultural History.
Social History.
Australasian History.
Modern History.