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Author:

Norcia, Megan A., 1976- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009078505

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Children--History--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 literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-254) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0821443534
9780821443538
0821419072
9780821419076

OCLC:

(OCoLC)475442785

LCCN:

2009051800

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)