Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) - Hardcover

Bulson, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415976480 ISBN 13: 9780415976480

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

This book examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Bulson is Associate Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University, US.

Review:

"Bulson has written a volume...that provides lucid and imaginative observations on the novelistic representation of place from the mid-nineteenth century works of Charles Dickens and Herman Melville to late twentieth-century fiction by Thomas Pynchon and W.G. Sebald. Bulson’s point of departure is the seldom acknowledged importance that documents of geographical orientation―most notably maps and guide books―have played in the writing, reading, and criticism of fiction. As a work of literary criticism, Novels, Maps, Modernity is well researched, provocative, and highly readable. Not only does it offer fresh readings of three of the most widely studied novels in the Anglo-American canon, but it provides new ways of looking at any novelistic representation of geographical place." –Jon Hegglund, Washington State University, Modern Philology

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415976480
• ISBN 13: 9780415976480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188