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X marks the spot : women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895 /

During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norcia, Megan A., 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: mapping imperial hierarchies and ruling the world
  • The dysfunctional "family of man": Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland classify human races in pre-darwinian primers
  • Place settings at the imperial dinner party: hierarchies of consumption in the works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield
  • Terra incognita: the gendering of geographic experience in the works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H.C. Legh, Lucy Wilson, Mrs. E. Burrows, and Maria Hack
  • "Prisoners in its spatial matrix"? resisting imperial geography in thirdspace
  • Conclusion: contextualizing archival recovery.