Cartographic Eye - How Explorers Saw Australia

Klappentext This book is about the mythologies of land exploration! and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions! aesthetics! and politics of Australian explorers’ texts that looks at the journals of John Oxley! Thomas Mitchell! Charles Sturt! and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple! unadorned observations the authors would have us believe! but! rather! complex networks of tropes. The book argues that contacts with Aborigines and the ‘virgin’ land are occasions of discursive contest! and that! however much explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey! this monarchy is not absolute. This book scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Zusammenfassung This book is an investigation of the presumptions and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the unadorned observations they would have us believe. It scrutinises the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Exploring culture: the formation and fragmentation of the explorer; 2. Picturesque visions: controlling the seen; 3. Maps and their cultural constructedness; 4. Seeing the Aborigines put in their place; 5. The bosom of unknown lands; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Ryan, Simon (Australian Catholic University Ryan, Ryan Simon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521577915
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57791-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Travel & holiday, Geographical discovery & exploration, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Australasian & Pacific history, Colonialism and imperialism, Geographical discovery and exploration, Travel and holiday, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Australasian and Pacific history, National liberation and independence