Territoires méridionaux et îles australes : laboratoires du masculin dans les premiers romans d’aventures pour garçons victoriennes by Valentine Prévot

“…Midshipman Easy (1838) and the shipwreck of both the Henniker family in Marryat’s The Little Savage (1848) and the three heroes of Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), the British imperial space spreads out at the same time as welcoming and heavenly but also as ferocious and unyielding. After an initial moment of clash and violence, these spaces allow themselves to be appropriated before turning into zones of contact. …”
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