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 22
PY  - 2010///
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - National characteristics, British, in literature
KW  - Geography in literature
KW  - Didactic literature, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Children's literature, English
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Children
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - British in literature
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
KW  - Impérialisme dans la littérature
KW  - Britanniques dans la littérature
KW  - Géographie dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature didactique anglaise
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature de jeunesse anglaise
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Enfants
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Multi-User
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - OldControl:muse9780821443538; 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
N2  - During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of Man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy. Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of previously unknown material that examines the interplay between gender, imperial duty, and pedagogy. Mega
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