Island bounds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23684178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillian Beer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 32-42 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Islands in History and Representation (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003060260-3 |
| OpenAlex | W4254281031 |
| ISBN | 9781003060260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter deals with two paradigmatic versions of the island: the one contracting towards a final fixed object, the other implicating the island form in large and complex systems of the present and the past. The island has its bounds on the outside, on its encircling parameters. But within islands are also islands - boundaries that may not be crossed, dangerous frontiers, ecological niches occupied and defended. Boundaries, both topographical and genetic, underpin kinship. The obliteration of kinship between human and animal, taken for granted in the goat episode in Robinson Crusoe , is reproduced in the Swiss Family Robinson . Crusoe is the most popular book of the Victorian period, where the boys of the family spend most of their time out with guns killing the creatures of this land, encouraged by the father-narrator. As in the Rousseauesque eighteenth-century reworking of the island story in Jacques-Henri Bernadin de Saint-Pierre&s;s Paul et Virginie , coupling is infinitely delayed and finally rendered impossible.
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |