| Description |
xi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 26
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 26.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: beside the antipodes -- Spots in time: antipodean place, habitation, and communication in the ancient world -- Earthly motions: the antipodes in medieval geography and cartography -- Returning monsters: gender, sex, and child-getting in early modern Britain -- Britain in the antipodes, Huahine in Britain: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century encounter correspondence -- Island laughter: twentieth-century antipodean literature -- Afterword: global antipodes in a virtual world. |
| Local Note |
Rider Faculty Publications |
| Subject |
Geography in literature.
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Geography in literature. |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
| ISBN |
9780415999069 hardback |
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0415999065 hardback |
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9780203860397 e-book |
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020386039X e-book |
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