Downing, Karen
Restless Men: Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788–1840
1. Introduction: Crusoe’s Chains
Karen Downing
2. Confined by the Gout — Perceptions of Men’s Physical Health
Karen Downing
3. The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul — Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery
Karen Downing
4. My Head Filled Early with Rambling Thoughts — Raising Boys and Making Men
Karen Downing
5. Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea — Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes
Karen Downing
6. To Think that This Was All My Own — Land, Independence and Emigration
Karen Downing
7. The Middle Station of Life — The Anxieties of Social Mobility
Karen Downing
8. A Surprising Change of Circumstances — Men’s Ambivalent Relationship with Authority
Karen Downing
9. The Centre of all My Enterprises — The Paradox of Families
Karen Downing
10. Conclusion: ‘Robinson Crusoe Untravelled…’
Karen Downing
Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Literature, general, Cultural History, Social History, Australasian History, Modern History
- Author(s)
- Downing, Karen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 246 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137348951
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-46781-5