Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain - Hardcover

 
9780521803779: Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain

Synopsis

This collection analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, it argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.

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Book Description

In this timely collection, an international team of Renaissance scholars analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britian argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.

About the Author

Andrew Gordon is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of a study guide for Thomas More's Utopia, as well as several articles on aspects of Renaissance culture. Bernhard Klein is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Dortmund in Germany. He is the author of Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland (2000), and of several essays, reviews and book chapters on Renaissance culture and on contemporary Irish literature.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010
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