Planetary Lives: Edward Warrulan, Edward John Eyre, and Queen Victoria

2014/01/02 by Ian R. Henderson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #Travel Writing and Literature #Buckingham #Antipodes #Queen (butterfly) #Art history #Sociology #History #Environmental ethics #Philosophy #Geography #Ecology #Biology

paper · doi:10.1080/00138398.2014.916910

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Abstract

AbstractThis article explores the relationship between Victorian and Ngaiwong ways of knowing by bringing a ‘planetary’ framework to bear upon an extraordinary meeting which took place at Buckingham Palace on 26 January 1846. To do so, it invokes the long history of the Antipodes; deploys, modifies and comments upon methodologies for conceiving and analysing ‘world literature’ by Americanist Wai Chee Dimock; and engages with the role of the imagination in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's concept of ‘planetarity’.

Citations

• From Moorundie to Buckingham Palace: Images of “King” Tenberry and his son Warrulan, 1845–55

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• Edward John Eyre [wikipedia]

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