X marks the spot : women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895 / Megan A. Norcia.
By: Norcia, Megan A [author.].
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BookPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]Copyright date: �2010Description: 1 online resource (273 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780821443538 (e-book).Subject(s): English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Children's literature, English -- History and criticism | Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism | Geography in literature | National characteristics, British, in literature | Imperialism in literature | Sex role in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/9287/09034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-254) and index.
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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