The Geographic Revolution in Early America - Maps, Literacy, And National Identity

Informationen zum Autor Martin Brückner is associate professor of English at the University of Delaware. Klappentext The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms. Zusammenfassung The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.

Product details

• Authors: Br&, Martin Br&fnof Ckner, Martin Bruckner, Martin Brückner
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2006
• EAN: 9780807856727
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-5672-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Published for the Omohundro In; Published for the Omohundro In; Published by the Omohundro Ins
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Maps, city plans, atlases; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1790 bis 1799 n. Chr., Landkarten und Atlanten, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also TRAVEL / Maps & Road Atlases), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Reference, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)