Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century

Abstract

The home of time: the prime meridian, the dome of the millennium, and postnational space / Ronald R. Thomas – Mapping the orient: non-western modernization, imperialism, and the end of romanticism / Ussama Makdisi – "Water leaves no trail ": mapping away the vanishing American in Cooper's Leatherstocking tales / David C. Lipscomb – Mapping enterprise: cartography and commodification at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition / Diane Dillon – 'A typically English brew": tea drinking, tourism, and imperialism in Victorian England / Julie Fromer – Cultural ecologies of the coast: space as the edge of cultural practice in Mary Kingsley travels hi- West Africa / Jules Law – Jewish geography: Trollope and the question of style / Joseph Iitvak – When in Rome: honeymoon tourism in the "city of visible history" / Helena Michie – Erotic geographies: sex and the managing of colonial space / Philippa Levine – Confinements and liberations: inscribing "woman" in colonial geographies of power / Betty Joseph – Literacy or empire: the ABCs of geography and the rule of territoriality in early-nineteenth-century America / Martin Brückner – From house to square to street: narrative traversals / Robert L. Patten – Those "gorgeous incongruities": polite politics and public space on the streets of nineteenth-century New York / Mona Domosh – Dickensian dislocations: trauma, memory, and railway disaster / Jill L. Matus – Poetics on the line: the effect of mass transport in urban culture / Ana Vadillo – "Full of empty": creating the southwest as "terra incognita" / Mary Pat Brady – Empire's second take: projecting American Stanley and Livingstone / Jon Hegglund.