Reading and Mapping Fiction - Spatialising the Literary Text

List of contents

1. A shifting relationship: from literary geography to critical literary mapping; 2. Historicising the fictional map; 3. Doubleness and silence in adventure and spy fiction; 4. Mapping murder; 5. Playspace: spatialising children's fiction; 6. Mapping worlds: Tolkien's cartographic imagination; 7. Fearing the map: representational priorities and referential assumptions; 8. Reading as mapping, or, what cannot be visualised.

About the author

Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. She is interested in mapping texts in a range of ways (across process; empirically; digitally). She is also principal investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded literary mapping project Chronotopic Cartographies.

Summary

This book explores why, and how, we map as we read; offering a new approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the emergence of a fictional map alongside the text in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For students and scholars of literary studies and cartography.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Bushell, Sally (Lancaster University) Bushell, Bushell Sally
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108487450
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48745-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Cartography, map-making & projections, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Cartography, map-making and projections