The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices

243 Pages·2009·31.845 MB·English

by  Matthew Boyd Goldie

The Idea of the Antipodes
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The Idea of the Antipodes
Place, People, and Voices
Matthew Boyd Goldie
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Goldie, Matthew Boyd.
The idea of the antipodes : place, people, and voices / by Matthew Boyd Goldie.
p. cm.—(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 26)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Geography in literature. 2. Place (Philosophy) in literature. 3. Postcolonialism in
literature. I. Title.
PN56.G48G66 2009
809'.9332--dc22
2009029770
ISBN 0-203-86039-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-99906-5 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-86039-X (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-99906-9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-86039-7 (ebk)
To the Antipodeans: Rosemary, Charles, Vicky, Dawson,
Olivia, David, Michael, Pam, Richard, Theo, Harry,
and Phoebe

Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Beside the Antipodes 1
1 Spots in Time: Antipodean Place, Habitation,
and Communication in the Ancient World 15
2 Earthly Motions: The Antipodes in Medieval Geography
and Cartography 36
3 Returning Monsters: Gender, Sex, and Child-Getting in
Early Modern Britain 71
4 Britain in the Antipodes, Huahine in Britain: Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century Encounter Correspondence 97
5 Island Laughter: Twentieth-Century Antipodean Literature 136
Afterword: Global Antipodes in a Virtual World 165
Notes 173
Bibliography 205
Index 221

Figures
I.1 Joseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem (Hannover, 1607). Courtesy
of the Library of Congress. 13
1.1, 1.2 Crates of Mallos (ca. 150 BCE) and the fi rst constructed globe. 21
1.3 Macrobius, In somnium Scipionis expositio (Brescia, 1485).
Courtesy of the Library of Congress. 22
1.4 Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia, trans. Jacopo d’Angelo, ed.
Nicolaus Germanus (Ulm, 1482). Courtesy of the Library of
Congress. 26
2.1 Lambert of St. Omer, Liber fl oridus. Ghent University
Library, Ms. 92, fol. 19r. Reproduced by permission of the
Ghent University Library. 42
2.2 Beatus of Liebana, Commentary on the Apocalypse
of Saint John. London, British Library, Add. Ms. 11695
(Silos), fols. 39v–40r. Reproduced by permission of the
British Library, © British Library Board. All rights reserved. 44
2.3 Lambert of St. Omer, Liber fl oridus. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog
August Bibliothek, Ms. Cod. Guelf. 1 Gud. Lat., fols. 69v–
70r. Reproduced by permission of the Herzog August Bibliothek. 45
2.4 Lambert of St. Omer, Liber fl oridus. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog
August Bibliothek, Ms. Cod. Guelf. 1 Gud. Lat., fol. 69v
detail. Reproduced by permission of the Herzog August
Bibliothek. 47
2.5 Lambert of St. Omer, Liber fl oridus. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog
August Bibliothek, Ms. Cod. Guelf. 1 Gud. Lat., fols. 59v–
60r. Reproduced by permission of the Herzog August Bibliothek. 52