Novels, Maps, Modernity - The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000

"Bulson has written a volume…that provides lucid and imaginative observations on the novelistic representation of place from the mid-nineteenth century works of Charles Dickens and Herman Melville to late twentieth-century fiction by Thomas Pynchon and W.G. Sebald. Bulson’s point of departure is the seldom acknowledged importance that documents of geographical orientation—most notably maps and guide books—have played in the writing, reading, and criticism of fiction. As a work of literary criticism, Novels, Maps, Modernity is well researched, provocative, and highly readable. Not only does it offer fresh readings of three of the most widely studied novels in the Anglo-American canon, but it provides new ways of looking at any novelistic representation of geographical place." –Jon Hegglund, Washington State University, Modern Philology Informationen zum Autor Eric Bulson Klappentext This book examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Zusammenfassung Examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Orienting, Disorienting the Novel 1. On Getting Oriented 2. Melville’s Zig-Zag World-Circle 3. Joyce’s Geodesy 4. Pynchon’s Baedeker Trick 5. On Getting Lost Notes. Bibliography. Index

Product details

• Authors: Eric Bulson, Eric (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Bulson, Bulson Eric
• Assisted by: William E. Cain (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2007
• EAN: 9780415976480
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97648-0
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form