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Reading and Mapping Fiction
Spatialising the Literary Text

Author: Sally Bushell, Lancaster University

Date Published: August 2020
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108487450

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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.
- Unique in grounding a study of literary mapping in the dynamic between the map and the text, featuring a host of examples with nearly seventy illustrations, and a full colour plate section
- A fully interdisciplinary account of the relationship between maps and texts for the mapping of fictional worlds, draws on theoretical and historical knowledge from both literature and cartography
- Brings together a range of new and emerging theoretical ideas including cognitive mapping and critical cartography to offer a fully comprehensive and accessible account of what we understand the mapping of literature to be
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'… the author crafts a revelatory hermeneutic tool for exploring the virtues of literature by innovatively blending aspects of cognition, cartography, and criticism. Bushell focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries - including reflections on genres and individuals, but her thinking extends into the digital age.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice
'… this monograph offers an innovative method for understanding the literature and maps of the long-nineteenth century, original ways of reading the century's new and dominant genres, an explanation of what happens to us when we encounter maps in novels as readers, and a guide to the possibilities of future digital humanities projects.' Sophie Welsh, Romance, Revolution and Reform
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- Date Published: August 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108487450
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 250 x 175 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.84kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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Sally Bushell, Lancaster University
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.