Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text

Bushell, Sally

ISBN 10: 1108487459 / ISBN 13: 9781108487450

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108487459
• ISBN 13: 9781108487450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Do we map as we read? How central to our experience of literature is the way in which we spatialise and visualise a fictional world? Reading and Mapping Fiction offers a fresh approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the emergence of a fictional map alongside the text in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bringing together a range of new and emerging theories, including cognitive mapping and critical cartography, Bushell compellingly argues that this activity, whatever it is called – mapping, diagramming, visualising, spatialising – is a vital and intrinsic part of how we experience literature, and of what makes it so powerful. Drawing on both the theory and history of literature and cartography, this richly illustrated study opens up understanding of spatial meaning and interpretation in new ways that are relevant to both more traditional academic scholarship and to newly emerging digital practices.

About the Author

Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. She is interested in mapping texts in a range of ways (across process; empirically; digitally). She is also principal investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded literary mapping project Chronotopic Cartographies.