Restless Men: Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840

By Karen Downing

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349467812
• ISBN13: 9781349467815
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"