The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman

ISBN-13: 9781554812745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Lance Bertelsen

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The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) tells the story of a fictional midshipman abandoned in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, after a battle with Maori that claims the lives of ten of his shipmates. Inspired by an actual event on Captain Cook's second voyage, Bowman's adventures take him to increasingly sophisticated cultures--hunter/ gatherer, pastoral/nomadic, agricultural, and commercial--that dramatize stadial history in a Pacific setting. The work provocatively weaves together popular fascination with Cook's voyages, sensational conceptions of the newly charted Pacific, contemporary ideas on human development and culture, topical satire on London life, and a fanciful castaway story. As an introduction to the cultural connections linking Pacific studies, the Scottish Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century English society and politics, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is unique in literary history and unsurpassed as a teaching text. Of equal importance, it marks the birth of a national literature. It is the first New Zealand novel. Historical appendices provide an exceptionally broad range of materials on the Grass Cove "massacre," the eighteenth-century stadial theory of historical development, cannibalism, and contemporary depictions of the South Pacific and its indigenous peoples.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text

The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman

Appendix A: The Grass Cove Incident

1. From Lieutenant James Burney, Log, 1773
2. From Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 16 July 1774
3. From Frances Burney, Journal, 1774
4. From Tobias Furneaux, Narrative, 1775
5. From Lieutenant James King, Journal, 17 February 1777

Appendix B: Descriptions of Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific

1. From Tobias Furneaux, Narrative, 1772
2. From William Anderson, A Journal of a Voyage Made in His Majestys Sloop Resolution, 28-29 January 1777
3. From Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World (1777)
4. From James Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole (1777)
5. From Frances Burney, Letter to Mr. Crisp, 1 December 1774

Appendix C: Cannibals

1. From Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (1580)
2. From Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
3. From Voltaire, “Anthropophagi, or Man-eaters” (1765)
4. From James Cook, Journal, 23 November 1773

Appendix D: Stadial Theory and the Scottish Enlightenment

1. From Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man (1699)
2. From Adam Smith, “Lectures on Jurisprudence” (1762)
3. From Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
4. From Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
5. From John Millar, Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society (1771)
6. From Lord Monboddo (James Burnett), Of the Origin and Progress of Language, 2nd ed. (1774)
7. Lord Kames (Henry Home), Sketches of the History of Man (1774)

Appendix E: Luxury, Global Trade, and Cross-Cultural Satire

1. From Bernard Mandeville, The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves Turn’d Honest (1705)
2. From Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
3. From Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770)
4. From Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker (1771)
5. From An Historic Epistle from Omiah, to the Queen of Otaheite; being his Remarks on the English Nation (1773)
6. From Omiah’s Farewell, Inscribed to the Ladies of London (1776)
7. From William Preston, Seventeen-Hundred and Seventy-Seven; or, A Picture of the Manners and Character of the Age. In a Poetical Epistle from a Lady of Quality in England to Omai, at Otaheite (1777)

Appendix F: Flying Fashion and Macaroni Style

1. Louis-Phillipe Boitard, “A Gawrey Extended for Flight,” from Robert Paltock, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1755)
2. The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady (1776)
3. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (c. 1775)
4. Phaetona or Modern Female Taste (1776)
5. Oh. Heigh. Oh. Or a View of the Back Settlements (1776)
6. The Fly-Catching Macaroni (1772)
7. From Yankee Doodle (c.1765-75)

Appendix G: Political Discussion of the American War Onboard Cook’s Resolution

1. From Lieutenant James King, Letter to Jane Burke, 2 July 1776

Appendix H. The Great Southern Continent

1. From Alexander Dalrymple, An Account of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacifick Ocean, Previous to 1764, Part 1 (1767)
2. From the Admiralty, Secret Instructions for Capt Cook, Commander of His Majesty’s Sloop Resolution, 25 June 1772

Appendix I: Reviews of Hildebrand Bowman

1. William Bewley, The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal (1778)
2. From The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature (1778)
3. From the London Chronicle, 19-21 May 1778

Works Cited and Select Bibliography