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03427aam a2200409 i 4500 001 CBB385666B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 140620s2014 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014024474 020 $a 1137348941 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137348944 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)880400746 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d CDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d STF $d PUL $d CHVBK $d SILO 050 00 $a HQ1090.7 A8 D69 2014 100 1 $a Downing, Karen, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Restless men : $b masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 / $c Karen Downing. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2014. 300 $a ix, 237 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 2 $a "Around the turn of the nineteenth century Robinson Crusoe turns up remarkably often in material dealing with the emerging Australian colonies. The call to adventure and do-it-yourself guide to settlement in Daniel Defoe's novel resonated strongly with British explorers and settlers. But Crusoe did not make men restless: restlessness was the expression of unresolved tensions in men's lives between ideals, aspirations, traditions and material circumstances, the tension between what men felt they should do and what was actually possible. Crusoe seemingly reconciled these tensions, showing that a man could be both wild and domesticated. Karen Downing traces the links in a discursive chain by which a particular male subjectivity was forged. Through the rarely studied interrelationship between public representations of manliness and self-representations by men in more private writings, she reveals how restless men took their restlessness with them, so that the Australian colonies never were a solution to men's anxieties"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Restless men -- 1. Confined by the Gout : Perceptions of Men's Physical Health -- 2. The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul : Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery -- 3. My Head Filled Early With Rambling Thoughts : Raising Boys and Making Men -- 4. Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea : Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes -- 5. To Think That This Was All My Own : Land, Independence and Emigration -- 6. The Middle Station of Life : the Anxieties of Social Mobility -- 7. A Surprising Change of Circumstances : Men's Ambivalent Relationship with Authority -- 8. The Centre of All My Enterprises : the Paradox of Families -- Conclusion: "Robinson Crusoe untravelled..." 650 0 $a Masculinity $x History $z Australia $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Masculinity $x History $z Australia $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a British $z Australia $x History. 650 0 $a Pioneers $z Australia $x History. 651 0 $a Australia $x British. $x British. 651 0 $a Australia $x Colonization. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z Australia. 650 0 $a Agitation (Psychology) $x History. $z Australia $x History. 650 0 $a Anxiety $x History. $z Australia $x History. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/944/9781137348944/image/lgcover.9781137348944.jpg 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826101829.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CBB385666B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search