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X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895
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X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895 Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Megan a. Norcia


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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.

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  • Title X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895
  • Author Megan a. Norcia
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press, Athens, OH
  • Date 2010-05-01
  • ISBN 9780821419076 / 0821419072
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex role in literature, Imperialism in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051800
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.992

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2010, Page 262

About the author

Megan A. Norcia is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Brockport.

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