X Marks the Spot : Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895 /

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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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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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