X marks the spot
Subtitle: women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895
By: Megan A. Norcia.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821419076; 9780821443538
Subjects: 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 literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: mapping imperial hierarchies and ruling the world; title: The dysfunctional "family of man": Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland; title: Classify human races in pre-darwinian primers; title: Place settings at the imperial dinner party: hierarchies of consumption in the works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield; title: 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; title: "Prisoners in its spatial matrix"? resisting imperial geography in thirdspace; title: Conclusion: contextualizing archival recovery.