In this Book
- X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Ohio University Press
summary
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. Megan A. Norcia offers an alternative map for traversing the landscape of nineteenth-century female history by reintroducing the primers into the dominant historical record. This is the first full-length study of the genre as a distinct tradition of writing produced on the fringes of professional geographic discourse before the high imperial period.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-30
- The Dysfunctional "Family of Man"
- pp. 31-65
- Terra Incognita
- pp. 107-146
- "Prisoners in Its Spatial Matrix"
- pp. 147-189
- Conclusion
- pp. 190-200
- Bibliography
- pp. 239-254
Additional Information
ISBN
9780821443538
Related ISBN(s)
9780821419076
MARC Record
OCLC
794698926
Pages
260
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No