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 Anderson, Benedict, 6, 48, 184–85, 195–96, 212n45, 227n64 Angels in the House trope, 16, 57, 69 anthropology, 19, 29, 32, 43, 62, 65, 72, 101–2, 160, 202n13, 207n56, 220n56 anthropophagy. See cannibalism Arens,William, 101–2 Asia: effect of colonization on, 29; represented in texts, 34, 35, 42, 62, 68, 78, 90–91, 119, 187, 210n14 Aspin, Jehoshaphat, 22, 31, 33, 42, 58, 209n7; Cosmorama, 51–53, 55, 59–60, 62–63, 212n41 Augstein, H. F., 208n32 Australia: effect of colonization on, 29, 56, 79, 81–82, 85, 88, 231n27; represented in texts, 78–79, 81–82, 85, 100, 182, 186, 233n59 Ballantyne, R. M., 220n56 Bar On, Bat-Ami, 26, 135, 145, 235n8 Beauvoir, Simone, 111 Beeton, Isabella, 69–70, 86 Bell, Morag, 10, 188, 199 Berlin Conference, 78, 82–83 Bhabha, Homi K., 32, 146, 152, 189, 228n76, 230n18 blank spaces: Marston’s use of as a pedagogical tool, 166, 168; as a mode of representing unknown territory, 27–29, 220n57, 229n8; Sitwana, 158; women primer writers eschew, 150, 185–86; women’s lives as, 190. See also palimpsest Blake, Susan, 148, 177 Blake,William, 203n23 Blom, Ida, 224n8 Blunt,Alison, 4, 178, 230n18, 234n79 Boase, Frederic, 70 Boscawen, Mary, 3, 4, 20, 22, 33, 76 Brantlinger, Patrick, 97 Adams, Henry, 93, 218 Africa: discussion of languages of (Geography in Easy Dialogues), 133, 141; effect of colonization on, 6, 29, 56, 78–83, 104, 154, 162, 185; Europeans in, 67, 144–45, 220n59, 234n71; food and diet in, 68, 77, 82–83;Anne Keary’s travels to Egypt, 172–77; Mary Kingsley travels in, 187, 225n16; Sarah Lee’s experience of, 79–80; reports of cannibalism in, 222n75, 222n77; represented in Africa Described (Hofland), 2, 20, 22, 24, 25, 33, 47, 60–63, 104, 110, 112–18, 133–34, 148–49, 162, 218n48; represented in A Geographical Present (Venning), 2, 22, 24, 33–40, 42, 65, 76, 100, 113; represented in school texts, 10, 132, 204n27, 205n31, 210n13; represented in The Traveller in Africa (Wakefield), 2, 20, 22, 24, 33, 58–60, 87–103, 104, 121, 124, 143, 172, 179–80, 218n46; scramble for, 13, 55, 57, 83, 102–3, 153, 214n64, 229n8; Sitwana’s story in Far-Off (Mortimer), 154–61, 164, 170. See also Berlin Conference; Egypt and Egyptians Africa Described (Hofland), 2, 20, 22, 24, 25, 33, 47, 60–63, 104, 110, 112–18, 133–34, 148–49, 162, 218n48 Alcoff, Linda, 14 Alice inWonderland (Carroll), 44, 203n23, 215n3 America: affiliation with England, 54–56; cannibalism in, 100–101, 104–5; colonization of, 5, 29, 42, 56, 67, 77, 88; diet in, 68, 84; Native Americans, 179, 182–83, 185, 197; represented in Far-Off (Mortimer), 154–55; rival colonial power, 7, 51–55, 83–84, 216n16; Mary Anne Venning on, 35, 36;Wakefield’s character travels to, 90, 119; wars in, 41, 137 Index  • index classifying human races:Africa and Africans, 36–37, 39, 210n13; challenges of mixedrace peoples, 40–41; as instrument of power, 52, 76, 87, 202n13, 208n2; by manners, 71–72, 87; as part of eighteenthcentury impulse to catalog, 31–33; as part of women’s domestic skill set, 192 Colley, Linda, 25, 49, 50, 53, 224n7 Conrad, Joseph, 144–45, 228;“Geography and Some Explorers,” 83, 111, 205n38; Heart of Darkness, 29, 98, 102–3, 220n56, 229n8 Cook, Captain James, 5–6, 181–82 Cooper, Frederick, 207 Cupples,Anne Jane, 3, 20, 85, 217n33 Dabundo, Laura, 191, 235n4 Darwin, Charles, 22, 40, 41, 43, 192, 210 David, Deidre, 107 Defoe, Daniel, 220n56 Derrida, Jacques, 192 Dickens, Charles, 101 Dougal,Theresa, 14, 120, 122 Doyle,Arthur Conan, 229n8 Driver, Felix, 18, 180, 224n15 Dutch, as rivals to English, 7, 23, 36, 38, 40–41, 56–61, 64, 72, 74, 96, 155–56 Early Egyptian History (Keary,Anne and Eliza), 14, 136–37, 152, 171–76, 177, 187 Edgeworth, Maria, 8, 17, 33–34, 46–47 editors, 25, 98–99, 110, 114–17, 136, 148–50, 152, 164, 186, 194, 224n15 Edney, Matthew, 14, 215n8, 229n8, 234n74 Egypt: Belzoni’s archeological techniques in, 134; Hofland on travel to, 118; imperial occupation of, 153, 155, 214n64; as imperial precedent, 23, 64, 113–14, 134, 214n64; represented in Early Egyptian History 14, 136–37, 152, 171–76, 177, 187, 191; represented in How Dick and Molly Traveled Round theWorld (Legh), 125–26; travel to, 141, 171, 232n43; women rulers in, 134–37 Eighty Pleasant Evenings, 84 Eldridge, C. C., 202n9 empire...

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