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  1. European perceptions of Terra Australis
    Erschienen: ©2011
    Verlag:  Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781409439417; 1409439410; 9781409426059; 140942605X
    Schlagworte: TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania; Cartography; Discovery and exploration, European; Geographical perception; Geography; Literature; Public opinion; Travel; Geografie; Geschichte; Literatur; Cartography; Geography; Geographical perception; Public opinion; Rezeption; Europäer; Öffentliche Meinung; Entdeckung; Kartografie; Australien <Motiv>
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 314 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index

    Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Perceptions; 2 Terra Australis and the Idea of the Antipodes; 3 The Roman South; 4 Meanings of the South: From the Mappaemundi to Shakespeare's Othello; 5 Terra Australis, Jave la Grande and Australia: Identity Problems and Fiction; 6 Mapping Terra Australis in the French Seventeenth Century: The Mémoires of the Abbé Jean Paulmier; 7 Ceremonial Encounters: Spanish Perceptions of the South Pacific, 1567-1794; 8 Naming and Shaming: The Baudin Expedition and the Politics of Nomenclature in the Terres Australes

    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. Through interdisciplinary 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 be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, h