X Marks the Spot [Recurso electrónico] : Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895 / Megan A. Norcia.
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TextoSeries Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2010. 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (xii, 260 p. )Tipo de contenido: - texto
- con mediación
- online resource
- 9780821443538
- Sex role in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- National characteristics, British, in literature
- Geography in literature
- Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
- Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- 820.9/9287/09034
- PR115 .N67 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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