Romantic cartographies : mapping, literature, culture, 1789-1832 / edited by Sally Bushell, Julia S. Carlson, Damian Walford Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bushell, Sally, editor.

Carlson, Julia S. (Julia Sandstrom), editor.

Walford Davies, Damian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--History--18th century.

Cartography.

Cartography--History--19th century.

Cartography in literature.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period sought to map and spatialise itself, the volume also considers the engagement of our own digital cultures with Romanticism's 'map-mindedness'. Original, exploratory essays engage with a wide range of cartographic projects, objects and experiences in Britain, and globally. Subjects range from Wordsworth, Clare and Walter Scott, to Romantic board games and geographical primers, to reveal the pervasiveness of the cartographic imagination in private and public spheres. Bringing together literary analysis, creative practice, geography, cartography, history, politics and contemporary technologies - just as the cartographic enterprise did in the Romantic period itself - Romantic Cartographies enriches our understanding of what it means to 'map' literature and culture.

Contents:

Part I Romantic Maps, Romantic Mapping 1. Cartography and Natural History in Late-Eighteenth-Century Canada / Alan Bewell 2. 'That Experienced Surveyor, Colonel Mudge': Romantic Representations of the Ordnance Survey Map-Maker, 1791-1830 / Rachel Hewitt 3. The British Atlas: Britton and Brayley's National Survey / Stephen Daniels 4. Mapping Invasion: Cartography, Caricature, Frames of Reading / Damian Walford Davies Part II Cartographic Encounters 5. Producing and Protesting Imperial Mapmindedness: Multimodal Pedagogy and Feminist Frustration in Sarah Atkins Wilson's Geographical Primers / Carl Thompson 6. Romantic Board Games and the 'World in Play' / Siobhan Carroll 7. Carto-tactual Subjects: Promoting the Education of the Blind in Romantic-Era France and Britain / Julia S. Carlson 8. Wordsworth and Mandelbrot on the Coast of Britain / Joshua Wilner Part III Beyond Romantic Cartographies 9. Deep Mapping and Romanticism: 'Practical' Geography in the Poetry of Sir Walter Scott / Christopher Donaldson 10. Unmapping John Clare: Circularity, Linearity, Temporality / Sally Bushell 11. The Problem of Precedent: Mapping the Post-Romantic Lake District / David Cooper 12. Maps without Territory: Disappearing Trelawney Town / Paul Youngquist

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-63899-6

1-108-63593-8