Reading and mapping fiction : spatialising the literary text / Sally Bushell, Lancaster University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bushell, Sally, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Maps in literature.

Imaginary places in literature.

Books and reading.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 335 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Do we map as we read? How central to our experience of literature is the way in which we spatialise and visualise a fictional world? Reading and Mapping Fiction offers a fresh approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the emergence of a fictional map alongside the text in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bringing together a range of new and emerging theories, including cognitive mapping and critical cartography, Bushell compellingly argues that this activity, whatever it is called - mapping, diagramming, visualising, spatialising - is a vital and intrinsic part of how we experience literature, and of what makes it so powerful. Drawing on both the theory and history of literature and cartography, this richly illustrated study opens up understanding of spatial meaning and interpretation in new ways that are relevant to both more traditional academic scholarship and to newly emerging digital practices"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Shifting Relationship: From Literary Geography to Critical Literary Mapping

The Origins of Literary Geography

Literary Geography or Literary Cartography?

Critical Cartography

Critical Literary Mapping

Material Juxtaposition: Map and Text

2. Historicising the Fictional Map

Early Pictorial Maps

Mapping Utopia; Mapping Dystopia

Mapping the New World

Itinerary Maps: Paris, Ogilby, Bunyan

Accurate Maps: Mapping the Nation

Accurate Maps: Mapping Empire

Ending Where We Began

3. Doubleness and Silence in Adventure and Spy Fiction

Trusting the Fictional Map: Accuracy and Use Value

Cartographic Silence

The Authenticity of the Fictional Map

From Adventure Story to Spy Fiction

Integrative Cartography in The Riddle of the Sands

Double Meanings; Double Intentions

4. Mapping Murder

The Origins of Maps in Detective Fiction

Mapping Crime Scenes

Theorising Detection

Trusting and Not Trusting the Map

Human Geometry

5. Playspace: Spatialising Children's Fiction

Spatialising Children's Fiction

The Lakes As Playspace

A Material and Visual Playspace

Referential or Non-referential?

Returning to Rousseau

Mapping Negative Playspace

6. Mapping Worlds: Tolkien's Cartographic Imagination

What to Do First

`Each Is Both Prior to the Other and Later Than It'

Writing and Mapping: Rivers and Roads

Multiple Mapping in The Lord of the Rings

Mapping and Not Mapping

Post-authorial Re-mapping

7. Fearing the Map: Representational Priorities and Referential Assumptions

Reasons for the Absence of Maps

Fearing Illustration

Realist Principles and the Absent Map

Why a Map Is Not an Illustration

Mapping Realism: Trollope

Mapping Realism: Hardy

Hardy and Trollope

The Earliest Map: Return of the Native

8. Reading As Mapping, or, What Cannot Be Visualised

Spatialising Reader-Response Theory

Conscious Memory Mapping

Two Forms for the Internal Map: Route and Locale

The Cognitive Mapping of Literature

Mapping Literature in Digital Space

`Let Us Pretend That It Is the End'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bushell, Sally, Reading and mapping fiction

ISBN:

9781108487450

1108487459

9781108720304

1108720307

OCLC:

1150870906