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The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity

Early American Literature, 2007, Vol.42 (1), p.197-201 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
Author: Burnham, Michelle
Subjects: American history ; Articulation ; Brown, Charles Brockden ; Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810) ; Brückner, Brückner, Martin,, Martin ; Colonial period-US ; Geography ; Historical geography ; Historical geography $xHistorical geography $zUnited States $vMaps ; Land surveys ; Learning ; Linguistics ; Literacy ; National identity ; Native North Americans ; Nonfiction ; Novels ; Polls & surveys ; Reading ; Studies ; Talbot, Jane ; United States ; Writing
Is Part Of: Early American Literature, 2007, Vol.42 (1), p.197-201
Description: Another of its achievements is its integration of a fascinating and diverse archive of material artifacts (not just paintings and book illustrations but embroidery samplers, porcelain pitchers, and map puzzles) and textual documents (not just novels and travel writing but surveying manuals, geography textbooks, and schoolroom spellers) into its study of the late colonial and early national periods. [...] perhaps this book's most compelling achievement is its theorization of what Bruckner calls "geographical literacy"-not just the ability to read maps and employ geographic terms, but the complex and fascinating cross-articulation of geometries and alphabetics in the schoolrooms, parlors, and identities of landed and literate settler Americans in the long eighteenth century, when "lessons in geographic modes of reading and writing intersected with the more familiar practices that we commonly associate with literary competence, from the first ciphering of the alphabet to performing speeches to writing narrative compositions" (4).
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0012-8163
ISSN: 1534-147X
EISSN: 1534-147X
DOI: 10.1353/eal.2007.0003
Source: ProQuest Central

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The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity

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