Restless Men: Masculinity And Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840

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.

• • Author: K. Downing
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jun 25, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 246 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137348941
• • ISBN-13: 9781137348944