Book ID: CBB001201481

European Perceptions of Terra Australis (2011)

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Scott, Anne M (Editor)
Hiatt, Alfred (Editor)
McIlroy, Claire (Editor)
Wortham, Christopher (Editor)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xviii + 314 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

"Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies."--publisher website.

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Review King, Robert J. (2014) Review of "European Perceptions of Terra Australis". Australian Historical Studies (p. 136). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Scott, Anne M. (2011) Preceptions. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Leadbetter, Bill (2011) The Roman South. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 45). unapi

Chapter Wortham, Christopher (2011) Meanings of the South: From the Mappaemundi to Shakespeare's Othello. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 61). unapi

Chapter Sankey, Margaret (2011) Mapping Terra Australis in the French Seventeenth Century: The Mémoires of the Abbé Jean Paulmier. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 111). unapi

Chapter Fornasiero, Jean; West-Sooby, John (2011) Naming and Shaming: The Baudin Expedition and the Politics of Nomenclature in the Terres Australes. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 165). unapi

Chapter McCarthy, Michael (2011) Who Do You Trust? Discrepancies Between the “Official and Unofficial” Sources Recording Explorers' Perceptions of Places and Their People. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Etherington, Norman (2011) Recovering the Imperial Context of the Mid-Victorian Exploration of Northern Australia, 1855--57. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 233). unapi

Chapter Hiatt, Alfred (2011) Terra Australis and the Idea of Antipodes. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 9). unapi

Chapter Richardson, W. A. R. (Bill) (2011) Terra Australis, Jave la Grande and Australia: Identity Problems and Fiction. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 83). unapi

Chapter Camino, Mercedes Maroto (2011) Ceremonial Encounters: Spanish Perceptions of the South Pacific, 1567--1794. In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 135). unapi

Chapter O'Loughlin, Katrina (2011) “My Own Slender Remarks”: Global Networks of Slavery and Sociability in Mary Ann Parker's Voyage to New South Wales (1795). In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 211). unapi

Chapter Penman, Leigh T. I. (2011) The Wicked and the Fair: Changing Perceptions of Terra Australis through the Prism of the Batavia Shipreck (1629). In: European Perceptions of Terra Australis (p. 247). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
DeShong, Rachel
Šolar, Renata
Wilson, Sierra M.
Wilson, John S.
Burnet, Ian
Zorn, Matija
Concepts
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16th century
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