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

Restless men : masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 / Karen Downing.
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ISBN 1137348941 (hardback)
9781137348944 (hardback)
Author Downing, Karen, 1961- (author.)
Title Restless men : masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 / Karen Downing.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description ix, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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..."
Summary "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"--back cover.
Subjects Defoe, Daniel, -- 1661?-1731 -- Characters -- Robinson Crusoe
Masculinity -- Australia -- History
Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History -- 18th century
Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) -- Miscellanea
Agitation (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History
Anxiety -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History
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