TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norcia,Megan A.
TI  - X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895
SN  - 9780821443538
AV  - PR115.N67 2010 
U1  - 820.9/9287/09034 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - English literature--Women authors--History and criticism
KW  - Children--Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century
KW  - Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century
KW  - Children's literature, English--History and criticism
KW  - Didactic literature, English--History and criticism
KW  - Geography in literature
KW  - National characteristics, British, in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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