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Subjects:

Geography in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.

Contents:

Introduction: beside the antipodes
Spots in time: antipodean place, habitation, and communication in the ancient world
Earthly motions: the antipodes in medieval geography and cartography
Returning monsters: gender, sex, and child-getting in early modern Britain
Britain in the antipodes, Huahine in Britain: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century encounter correspondence
Island laughter: twentieth-century antipodean literature
Afterword: global antipodes in a virtual world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415999069 (hbk.)
0415999065 (hbk.)
9780203860397 (ebk.)
020386039X (ebk.)

OCLC:

277196174