Nineteenth-Century Geographies

by Michie, Helena; Thomas, Ronald R.

• ISBN13: 9780813531441
• ISBN10: 0813531446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Time Zones
The Home of Time: The Prime Meridian, the Dome of the Millennium, and Postnational Space	p. 23
Mapping the Orient: Non-Western Modernization, Imperialism, and the End of Romanticism	p. 40
"Water Leaves No Trail": Mapping Away the Vanishing American in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales	p. 55
Commodities and Exchanges
Mapping Enterprise: Cartography and Commodification at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition	p. 75
"A Typically English Brew": Tea Drinking, Tourism, and Imperialism in Victorian England	p. 99
Cultural Ecologies of the Coast: Space as the Edge of Cultural Practice in Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa	p. 109
Jewish Geography: Trollope and the Question of Style	p. 123
Domestic Fronts
When in Rome: Honeymoon Tourism in the "City of Visible History"	p. 137
Erotic Geographies: Sex and the Managing of Colonial Space	p. 149
Confinements and Liberations: Inscribing "Woman" in Colonial Geographies of Power	p. 161
Literacy for Empire: The ABCs of Geography and the Rule of Territoriality in Early-Nineteenth-Century America	p. 172
From House to Square to Street: Narrative Traversals	p. 191
Orientations
Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York	p. 209
Dickensian Dislocations: Trauma, Memory, and Railway Disaster	p. 225
Poetics on the Line: The Effect of Mass Transport in Urban Culture	p. 237
"Full of Empty": Creating the Southwest as "Terra Incognita"	p. 251
Empire's Second Take: Projecting America in Stanley and Livingstone	p. 265
Notes on Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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