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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443538
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: X Marks the SpotDDC classification:
  • 820.9/9287/09034
LOC classification:
  • PR115.N67 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mapping Imperial Hierarchies and Ruling the World -- 1 The Dysfunctional "Family of Man" -- Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland Classify Human Races in Pre-Darwinian Primers -- 2 Place Settings at the Imperial Dinner Party -- Hierarchies of Consumption in the Works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield -- 3 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 -- 4 "Prisoners in Its Spatial Matrix"? -- Resisting Imperial Geography in Thirdspace -- Conclusion -- Contextualizing Archival Recovery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world.
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Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mapping Imperial Hierarchies and Ruling the World -- 1 The Dysfunctional "Family of Man" -- Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland Classify Human Races in Pre-Darwinian Primers -- 2 Place Settings at the Imperial Dinner Party -- Hierarchies of Consumption in the Works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield -- 3 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 -- 4 "Prisoners in Its Spatial Matrix"? -- Resisting Imperial Geography in Thirdspace -- Conclusion -- Contextualizing Archival Recovery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world.

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