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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Norcia, Megan A., 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Sex role in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Geography in literature.
Didactic literature, English > History and criticism.
Children's literature, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Children > Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
British in literature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Britanniques dans la littérature.
Géographie dans la littérature.
Littérature didactique anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature de jeunesse anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Enfants > Livres et lecture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Children > Books and reading.
Children's literature, English.
Didactic literature, English.
English literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
Multi-User
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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