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Restless men = masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Restless men/ Karen Downing.
Reminder of title:	masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 /
Author:	Downing, Karen E.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	British - History - Australia. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	113734895X (electronic bk.) :

Restless men = masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 /
Downing, Karen E.

Restless menmasculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 /[electronic resource] :Karen Downing. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 256 p.

Electronic book text.

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...'.

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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.Around the turn of the nineteenth century Robinson Crusoe turns up remarkably often in material dealing with the emerging Australian colonies. The call to adventure and do-it-yourself guide to settlement in Daniel Defoe's novel resonated strongly with British explorers and settlers. But Crusoe did not make men restless: restlessness was the expression of unresolved tensions in men's lives between ideals, aspirations, traditions and material circumstances, the tension between what men felt they should do and what was actually possible. Crusoe seemingly reconciled these tensions, showing that a man could be both wild and domesticated. Karen Downing traces the links in a discursive chain by which a particular male subjectivity was forged. Through the rarely studied interrelationship between public representations of manliness and self-representations by men in more private writings, she reveals how restless men took their restlessness with them, so that the Australian colonies never were a solution to men's anxieties.

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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.

ISBN: 113734895X (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Personal Names:

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Defoe, Daniel,
1661?-1731--CharactersSubjects--Topical Terms:

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British
--History--Australia.

LC Class. No.: HQ1090.7.A8 / D69 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 305.31094109033

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