Title
- Space, Place, And Society
Attribution
Karen M. MorinPublication Details
Book1st edSyracuse University Press2008Availability
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With a rare degree of clarity the author examines relationships among nineteenth-century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century — British travelers, American journalists, a Native American tribal leader, and female naturalists. Drawing from a rich diversity of primary sources, from published travelogues and unpublished archival sources such as letters and diaries to newspaper reportage, Morin considers ways in which women’s writing was influenced by the material circumstances of travel in addition to the various social norms that circumscribed female roles. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction: The frontiers of femininity
- Trains through the plains : the great plains landscape of Victorian women travelers
- Peak practices : Englishwomen’s heroic adventures in the nineteenth-century American West
- Gender, nature, empire : women naturalists in nineteenth-century British women’s travel literature (with Jeanne Kay Guelke)
- Surveying Britain’s informal empire : Rose Kingsley’s 1872 reconnaissance for the Mexican National Railway
- British women travelers and constructions of racial difference across the nineteenth-century American West
- Postcolonialism and Native American geographies : the letters of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899
- Mining empire : journalists in the American West, circa 1870
- Afterword: Imprints on a new historical geography of North America
ISBN
- 9780815631675
- 0815631677
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