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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Karen Downing is a Visitor in the School of History at The Australian National University, Australia. She has a PhD from the Australian National University where she has taught gender and historiography and theory courses. Currently she is the assistant editor of History Australia.
- Reviews
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"Downing's text is very neatly situated in the historiography of masculinity ... [it] has made a valuable and engaging contribution to the literature on masculinities. Her scholarship is exceptional and her book deserves to be read by all who are interested in this field." - Australian Historical Studies
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Crusoe’s Chains
Pages 1-13
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Confined by the Gout — Perceptions of Men’s Physical Health
Pages 14-32
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The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul — Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery
Pages 33-51
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My Head Filled Early with Rambling Thoughts — Raising Boys and Making Men
Pages 52-70
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Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea — Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes
Pages 71-88
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Restless Men
- Book Subtitle
- Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840
- Authors
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- K. Downing
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-34895-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137348951
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-34894-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-46781-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 237
- Topics
