This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and bodily and humorous in the latest era.

Matthew Boyd Goldie is Associate Professor of English at Rider University.

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