Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance

List of contents

• Introduction: Common Space: Poetry and Cartography


• Chapter One: Spenser's Miniature Map of Faerie


• Chapter Two: Daniel's Imperial Survey


• Chapter Three: Jonson's Broken Compasses and Bit Parts


• Chapter Four: Davenant's Numerical Nationhood


• Chapter Five: Milton's Map of Liberty


• Epilogue: Argos Eyes

About the author

Katarzyna Lecky's research explores how concepts of social justice articulated in natural philosophy and the new sciences informed Renaissance literature. She has published in Exemplaria, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Philological Quarterly, Reformation, Studies in English Literature, and Spenser Studies, as well as edited collections, and has earned fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Folger Shakespeare, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries, among others. Her next book project examines botanical models of nativity, natality, and naturalization in seventeenth-century literature and medicine.

Summary

Katarzyna Lecky investigates how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks alongside portable cartography, to examine the ways in which canonical writers represented the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown.

Additional text

an impressive book ... This cogent and original book makes a signal contribution to our understanding of early modern print markets and publics.

Product details

• Authors: Katarzyna Lecky, Katarzyna (Bucknell University) Lecky
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2019
• EAN: 9780198834694
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883469-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Historical maps and atlases, Historical maps & atlases, Literary studies: poetry and poets, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps