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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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Perceptions, Anne M. Scott; Chapter 2 Terra Australis and the Idea of the Antipodes, Alfred Hiatt; Chapter 3 The Roman South, Bill Leadbetter; Chapter 4 Meanings of the South, Christopher Wortham; Chapter 5 Terra Australis, Jave la Grande and Australia, W.A.R. (Bill) Richardson; Chapter 6 Mapping Terra Australis in the French Seventeenth Century, Margaret Sankey; Chapter 7 Ceremonial Encounters, Mercedes Maroto Camino; Chapter 8 Naming and Shaming, Jean Fornasiero, John West-Sooby; Chapter 9 Who Do You Trust? Discrepancies Between the 'Official and Unofficial' Sources Recording Explorers' Perceptions of Places and Their People, Michael McCarthy; Chapter 10 'My Own Slender Remarks', Katrina O'Loughlin; Chapter 11 Recovering the Imperial Context of the Mid-Victorian Exploration of Northern Australia, 1855-57, Norman Etherington; Chapter 12 The Wicked and the Fair, Leigh T.I. Penman;
