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Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European people and places. In the exotic, uncomplicated and malleable settings of stories like Robinson Crusoe, they make it possible to imagine, and to naturalise and normalise, identities that might seem implausible closer to home. They make it possible to map new forms of masculinity, as writers such as Robert Ballantyne sought to do. At the same time, adventure stories chart colonies and empires, projecting European geographical fantasies onto non-European, real geographies, including the Americas, Africa and Australasia. But beneath the map-like realism of adventure stories, there is an undercurrent of ambivalence. Adventure's geography is more fragile and also more fluid than it first appears. While adventure stories map, they also unmap geographies and identities, destabilising and sometimes recasting them. The ambivalent geography and politics of adventure are illustrated in late-Victorian and Edwardian girls' stories, in which boundaries between masculinity and femininity are blurred, and in contemporaneous stories by Jules Verne, which can be read as anarchist adventures.

Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies in literature --- Communication interethnique dans la littérature --- Difference (Psychology) in literature --- Differentie (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Différence (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Geografie in de literature --- Geography in literature --- Géographie dans la littérature --- Imperialism in literature --- Imperialisme in de literatuur --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Intercultural communication in literature --- Interculturele communicatie in de literature --- Koloniale literatuur --- Kolonies in de literatuur --- Littérature coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Mannelijkheid (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Masculinité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Postkoloniale literatuur --- Reis in de literatuur --- Reizen in de literatuur --- Travel in literature --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Voyages dans la littérature --- Men --- Books and reading --- Adventure stories [French] --- History and criticism --- Boys --- Adventure stories [Australian ] --- Boys - Books and reading. --- Adventure stories, Australian - History and criticism. --- Adventure stories, French - History and criticism. --- Intercultural communication in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- Men - Books and reading. --- Adventure stories, English --- Adventure stories, Australian --- Adventure stories, French --- Masculinity in literature --- Topography in literature --- French adventure stories --- French fiction --- Australian adventure stories --- Australian fiction --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Defoe, Daniel, --- SCIENCE-FICTION --- AVENTURES ET AVENTURIERS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ROMAN D'AVENTURES ANGLAIS --- ROMAN D'AVENTURES AUSTRALIENS --- ROMAN D'AVENTURES FRANCAIS --- IMPERIALISME DANS LA LITTERATURE --- COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- MASCULINITE (PSYCHOLOGIE) --- DIFFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGIE) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GEOGRAPHIE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- COMMUNICATION INTERCULTURELLE --- VOYAGE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- DE FOE OU DEFOE (DANIEL FOE, DIT), ROMANCIER, POETE ET JOURNALISTE ANGLAIS, 1660-1731 --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ROBINSON CRUSOE --- Colonies --- Dans la littérature --- Masculinity in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading.