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
