Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh analysis of the mental and material mapping of early modern England and Ireland. Combining cartographic history with critical cultural studies and literary analysis, it examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: B. Klein
EAN: 9781349418312
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 454 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-11
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / History
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Western Europe, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, History of ideas, European history, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing
BERNHARD KLEIN is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Dortmund. He is editor (with Andrew Gordon) of Paper Landscapes, Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain.
