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

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Place / Publishing House:Athens : : Ohio University Press,, [2010]
2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (273 pages)
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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.