1st Edition
The Idea of the Antipodes Place, People, and Voices
By Matthew Boyd Goldie
Copyright 2010
228 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes—the places and people on the other side of the world—from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. 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... Read more
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Beside the Antipodes 1: Spots in Time: Antipodean Place, Habitation, and Communication in the Ancient World 2: Earthly Motions: The Antipodes in Medieval Geography and Cartography 3: Returning Monsters: Gender, Sex, and Child-Getting in Early Modern Britain 4: Britain in the Antipodes, Huahine in Britain: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Encounter Correspondence 5: Island Laughter: Twentieth-Century Antipodean Literature Afterword: Global Antipodes in a Virtual World Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Matthew Boyd Goldie is Professor of English at Rider University.
