Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination Early Modern to Late Modern

• Main Authors: Szuba, Monika, Wolfreys, Julian
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2022
• Edition: 1

A wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds.

Table of Contents:

• Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 About This Book -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1 The Poet, Voyager, and Cartographer Are 'of Imagination All Compact': Crossing the Borders of Early Modern Poetry and Cartography -- 1 Poets' Fancies -- 2 The Rise of an Idol -- 3 Dreams of Omnipotence -- 4 The Image Is Multiplied -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Fragmented Body versus Cartographic Representation: The Early Modern Subject and the Marlovian Transgressors -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Marcus the Magnificent: Closure and Resolution in Joël Dicker's The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair -- Acknowledgements -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 'To Deploy an Errant Eye': Olga Tokarczuk's 'Early Modern' Fantasia -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 The Mapping of Empire in Hilary Davies' 'Imperium' -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Mapping and Unmapping the World: Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky versus Unmapping Memory. Looking for Hildegard of Bingen by Desmond Graham -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Charting Milan in Central Asia: Lombard Maps and Asian Toponymy in Luciano Erba's Poetry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A City of Mist. Mapping Milan in the Poetry of Luciano Erba -- 3 A Lattice of Arabesques. The Carpet in the Poetry of Luciano Erba -- 4 Persian Carpets as Maps for Orientation in Milan and Lombardy -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 A 'Monolithic Map/ of We Know Not What': Alec Finlay's Chorographic Poetics -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Unseeable Maps: The Experience of Space in the Blind Walk Performance -- 1 The Map of Sounds -- 2 Walk with Me -- 3 Do You See What I Mean? -- 4 The Map of Multisensory Experience -- 5 Deep Map -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited
• Chapter 10 Maps, Literature, and Law's Idiocy: Literary Tropes as Incentive, Ground and Veil for Taking the Commons -- 1 From Centralization to Ecological Territorialisation -- 2 Literary Tropes Working as an Incentive to Gain and Claim Land -- 3 From Incentive to Ground: Making Legal Personhood Feel Natural -- 4 Law's Idiocy: The Map as Ficta Persona and the Veil of Irresponsibility -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Mapping the Sacramental: Inner Circle by Jerzy Peterkiewicz -- 1 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12 Camino (Hyper)Real: California's Cartographic Imaginations -- 1 On Immutable Mobiles and Maps as 'Knowledge as Power' -- 2 El Camino (Hyper)Real -- 3 Missions in California - Reminder -- 4 Alternative Native Cartography -- 5 Vertically Downwards, Gleaning -- 6 We Are the Land -- 7 In the Footsteps of the Ancestors -- 8 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Authors and Works