Abstract
Teaching Charlotte Lennox’s Harriot Stuart (London, 1750) and Euphemia (London, 1790) offers a transatlantic perspective of the New York region and its diverse population of African Americans, Native Americans, and European Americans as understood from a British woman novelist who lived in New York in the 1740s during the time in which both novels are set. In addition to this diversity, her novels demonstrate the conflicts and networks within this part of America, all of which can be explored through historical and geographical contexts of contemporaneous maps. These maps not only engage the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focus that many colleges and universities are adopting but also engage affect and memory through contemporaneous allegorical maps, and extend to opportunities for students to create their own maps.
Keywords
geographic imagination, mapping, New York, African Americans, Native Americans, HBCUs, love, New York Conspiracy of 1741, Charlotte Lennox
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Leah M.
(2022)
"Mapping the Geographic Imagination in Harriot Stuart and Euphemia at an HBCU,"
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.12: Iss.1, Article 6.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.12.1.1286
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol12/iss1/6
Figure 1. Matthäus Seutter. Representation sÿmbolique et ingenieuse projettée en siege et en bombardement known as The Attack of Love (Augsburg, 1730). Cornell University—PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography, https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3293729.
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Figure 2. Anna Letitia Barbauld. A New Map of the Land of Matrimony from the Latest Surveys (London, 1772). Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, PR4057.B7 N49 1772 c. 1. This map may be another state of the original 1772 map because “Friesland” is spelled “Friezland,” and it does not have the elaborate cartouche with a blindfolded cupid and banner, “Un Aveugle fait le Choix,” among other differences. It has been hand colored, possibly by the previous owner whose name has been inscribed along the lower margin: “ב. יאבם שרהור, nomen hoc est.”
Figure 3.ochagach_nby_eeayer_3415_full.jpg (1263 kB)
Figure 3. Ochagach. A portion of Carte copiée sur celle qui a été tracée par le sauvage Ochagache et autres recopiée par moi le 8 7bre 1846 (ms., orig. 1728; ms., 1846). Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection, Newberry Library, Map8F Ayer MS map 186, https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_eeayer/id/3416/. This image is a portion of the larger 1846 tracing of the original 1728 manuscript from Cree sources including Ochagach to whom the map is attributed that delineates the waterways of western Canada and the western United States.
Figure 4.grim david_a plan of the city and environs of new york_nypl.tiff (80306 kB)
Figure 4. David Grim. A Plan of the City and Environs of New York: As They Were in the Years 1742-1743 and 1744 Drawn by D.G. in the 76th year of his age who had at this time a perfect & correct recollection of every part of the same (New York, 1854). Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library, Map Div. 09-1293. The New York Public Library Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d0d5f610-f3a1-0130-cc83-58d385a7b928.
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