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"The book examines the evolving role of space as a concept crucial to literary studies. It treats the emergence and development of foundational theories in spatial literary studies alongside emergent approaches. It will appeal to scholars and students in literature, geography, history, sociology, and gender studies, among other fields"--
List of contents
List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: space and literary studies Elizabeth F. Evans; Part I. Origins Revisited: 1. Representation Andrew Thacker; 2. Mapping: cheap maps, spatial politics and England's colonies Kat Lecky; 3. Space, disciplinary power and the novel Philip Howell; 4. Public/private: the spatial form of love and labor in the English novel Nancy Armstrong and Matthew Taft; 5. Urban/Rural by Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee; Part II. Developments: 6. Gender, space and feminist geography Radost Rangelova; 7. Plantation: toward a literary history of race, space, and capital in the Anglo-world Jared Hickman and Aaron Begg; 8. Empire, nation and the question of space Sandeep Banerjee and Atreyee Majumder; 9. Postcolonial space: African literary writing and the articulations of worlding Madhu Krishnan; 10. Borders and the liminal Mary Pat Brady; 11. Encountering the community in third space Megan Jeanette Myers; 12. Literary mobilities and the mobilization of space Charlotte Mathieson; 13. Translocality and translocalism James Mulholland; 14. Psychogeography Joshua Armstrong; 15. Mapping empire's horror: literary gis and colonial spatial logic Alexander Sherman; Part III. Applications and Extensions: 16. Islands, oceans and the production of spatial theory Johannes Riquet; 17. Other/world(ly): a black ecology of outer space Stefanie K. Dunning; 18. Imaginary space Siobhan Carroll; 19. Digital Space Peta Mitchell; 20. Sensory geographies Sheila Hones; 21. Orientations Eve Sorum; Index.
About the author
Elizabeth F. Evans works on modernism, literary and cultural geography, and the digital humanities. Her first book, Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines gender and space in writing by British and colonial authors.
Summary
Examines the evolving role of space as a concept crucial to literary studies. Treats the emergence and development of foundational theories in spatial literary studies alongside emergent approaches. Focus on intersection of space and power relations. Appeals to scholars and students in literature, history, and gender studies, among other fields.
Foreword
Examines the evolving role of space as a concept in literary studies while emphasizing its intersection with power.
