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2 - Historicising the Fictional Map

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

Sally Bushell
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Lancaster University
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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 Fiction
Spatialising the Literary Text
, pp. 44 - 91
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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