The cartographic eye
how explorers saw Australia
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Author
Publication
1996 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], England
Language
English
Word Count
58,750 words, Guess
Page Count
235 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL983219M
- ISBN-10052157112X
- OCLC Control Number34624470
- OCLC Control Numbercartographiceyeh0000ryan
- Library of Congress Control Number96020910
and 2 more
- LibraryThing503956
- Goodreads5869015
Classifications
- DDC994.01
- LCCDU97 .R94 1996
Description
The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.
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