Norcia, Megan A.,  1976- <br/><br/>
X marks the spot :  women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895 / 
Megan A. Norcia. 
 - 1 online resource (273 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-254) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821443538 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Children--Books and reading--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Children's literature, English--History and criticism.<br/>Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.<br/>Geography in literature.<br/>National characteristics, British, in literature.<br/>Imperialism in literature.<br/>Sex role in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR115  / .N67 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9/9287/09034