Book contents
- Reading and Mapping Fiction
- Reading and Mapping Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgement of Prior Publications
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Shifting Relationship: From Literary Geography to Critical Literary Mapping
- 2 Historicising the Fictional Map
- 3 Doubleness and Silence in Adventure and Spy Fiction
- 4 Mapping Murder
- 5 Playspace: Spatialising Children’s Fiction
- 6 Mapping Worlds: Tolkien’s Cartographic Imagination
- 7 Fearing the Map: Representational Priorities and Referential Assumptions
- 8 Reading As Mapping, or, What Cannot Be Visualised
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Historicising the Fictional Map
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2020
Book contents
- Reading and Mapping Fiction
- Reading and Mapping Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgement of Prior Publications
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Shifting Relationship: From Literary Geography to Critical Literary Mapping
- 2 Historicising the Fictional Map
- 3 Doubleness and Silence in Adventure and Spy Fiction
- 4 Mapping Murder
- 5 Playspace: Spatialising Children’s Fiction
- 6 Mapping Worlds: Tolkien’s Cartographic Imagination
- 7 Fearing the Map: Representational Priorities and Referential Assumptions
- 8 Reading As Mapping, or, What Cannot Be Visualised
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter Two contextualises the fictional map itself by aligning early examples to the history of cartography, centred on major turning points and correspondence (or non-correspondence) between real-world developments and works of literature. It begins with medieval maps as relational networks; explores the influence of Utopia as the earliest ‘literary’ map; analyses the mapping of the New World in relation to Defoe and Swift; before considering the effects of the Ordnance Survey and maps of Empire on the mapping of fictional place and space. (84)
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- Reading and Mapping FictionSpatialising the Literary Text, pp. 44 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020