European Perceptions of Terra Australis
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Abrolhos Islands
Annius Plocamus
antipodes concept
australes
Australia's East Coast
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Aux Terres Australes
Baudin Expedition
Bill Leadbetter
Bouvet Island
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Charles III
Christopher Wortham
continent
De Freycinet
East Indies
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greater
historical cartography
HMS Investigator
imperial exploration
intellectual history of southern hemisphere
jackson
Jean Fornasiero
John West-Sooby
Katrina O'Loughlin
land
lands
Leigh T.I. Penman
Louis De Freycinet
Margaret Sankey
maritime encounters
Mercedes Maroto Camino
Michael McCarthy
National Library
Norman Etherington
Parker's Account
Parker’s Account
Philip III
port
Port Essington
postcolonial studies
RGS
Shark Bay
southern
Terra Australis
Terra Australis Incognita
terres
Terres Australes
visual culture analysis
W.A.R. (Bill) Richardson
Western Australian Museum
Willem Janszoon
Wilson's Promontory
Wilson’s Promontory
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781409426059
- Weight: 861g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
Anne M. Scott is editor of the journal Parergon and an honorary research fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. Her recent books include Piers Plowman and the Poor (Dublin, 2004) and, with Andrew Lynch, Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context (Newcastle, 2008). Alfred Hiatt is a Reader in English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600 (London and Chicago, 2008). Claire McIlroy is a Research Associate for international liaison in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions based at The University of Western Australia. She is also an honorary research fellow in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia, and author of The English prose treatises of Richard Rolle (Woodbridge, 2004). Christopher Wortham is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. He is also Professor of Theatre Studies and English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. He has published widely on Renaissance poetry and drama.
