Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination

Early Modern to Late Modern

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Volume Editors:
Monika Szuba
and
Julian Wolfreys
Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern is a wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings of authors from Edmund Spenser to Olga Tokarczuk, and through considered discussions of the ideologies of walking and mapping, in performance art and cultural representation, assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds. Together, the essays demonstrate convincingly the close relationship between text, map and culture.
Copyright Year:
2022
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Monika Szuba is Associate Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (2019) and co-edited with Julian Wolfreys The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (2019) and Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (2019).

Julian Wolfreys, Independent Scholar, is the author of Dickens’s London: Perception, Subjectivity, and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity (2015), Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities (2010) and the editor of Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords (2003).
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Introduction
  Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys

1 The Poet, Voyager, and Cartographer Are ‘of Imagination All Compact’ Crossing the Borders of Early Modern Poetry and Cartography
  Małgorzata Grzegorzewska

2 Fragmented Body versus Cartographic Representation The Early Modern Subject and the Marlovian Transgressors
  Klaudia Łączyńska

3 Marcus the Magnificent Closure and Resolution in Joël Dicker’s The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
  Tom Ue

4 ‘To Deploy an Errant Eye’ Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Early Modern’ Fantasia
  Julian Wolfreys

5 The Mapping of Empire in Hilary Davies’ “Imperium”
  Jean Ward

6 Mapping and Unmapping the World Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky versus Unmapping Memory. Looking for Hildegard of Bingen by Desmond Graham
  Olga Kubińska and Wojciech Kubiński

7 Charting Milan in Central Asia Lombard Maps and Asian Toponymy in Luciano Erba’s Poetry
  Samuele Fioravanti

8 A ‘Monolithic Map/ of We Know Not What’ Alec Finlay’s Chorographic Poetics
  Monika Szuba

9 Unseeable Maps The Experience of Space in the Blind Walk Performance
  Izabela Zawadzka

10 Maps, Literature, and Law’s Idiocy Literary Tropes as Incentive, Ground and Veil for Taking the Commons
  Frans-Willem Korsten

11 Mapping the Sacramental Inner Circle by Jerzy Peterkiewicz
  Aleksandra Słyszewska

12 Camino (Hyper)Real California’s Cartographic Imaginations
  Grzegorz Welizarowicz

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Readership includes advanced-level undergraduates, MA and doctoral students, and professional academics working in the humanities.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 280 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520288

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