Mapping discord : allegorical cartography in early modern French writing / Jeffrey N. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Jeffrey N., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--17th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

Maps in literature.

Allegories.

Cartography.

Physical Description:

286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2004]

Contents:

1. From Cosmography to Cartography: Power and Representation in Early Modern French Maps 45

Writing Space 48

From Space to Place: Champlain in Quebec 55

Abstraction as Metaphor 67

Monarchy and the Representation of Space 74

2. Mapping Nonsense: Meaning and Transgression in Scudery's "Carte de Tendre" 83

The Space of Meaning 88

Mapping Tendre 93

The Conversation as Map 100

Allegory and Subversion 103

Terrae incognitae 114

3. The Rape of "Tendre" and the Violence of Mapping 117

Rewriting Tendre 118

Francois d'Aubignac's History of Time 126

Boileau and the Disciplinary Map 140

4. Eloquence at the Boundaries: Academic Cartography in Furetiere and Sorel 147

In Defense of Eloquence 151

Sorel Responds 162

The Boundaries of Allegory 170

5. Mapping the Ancients and Moderns: On the Discursive History of Allegorical Cartography 177

The Shield as Globe 180

The Absent Center 189

In the Temple of Saturn 197

Callieres and the Persistence of Rhetoric 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-278) and index.

ISBN:

0874138477

OCLC:

52979222