Against the Map - Adam Sills

Against the Map

The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2021
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4598-9 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
Argues that our understanding of the production of national space during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must account for sites of resistance and opposition to hegemonic forms of geographical representation, such as the map.
Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the increasing accuracy and legibility of cartographic projections, the proliferation of empirically based chorographies, and the popular vogue for travel narratives served to order, package, and commodify space in a manner that was critical to the formation of a unified Britain. In tandem with such developments, however, a trenchant anti-cartographic skepticism also emerged. This critique of the map can be seen in many literary works of the period that satirize the efficacy and value of maps and highlight their ideological purposes.

Against the Map argues that our understanding of the production of national space during this time must also account for these sites of resistance and opposition to hegemonic forms of geographical representation, such as the map.

This study utilizes the methodologies of critical geography, as well as literary criticism and theory, to detail the conflicted and often adversarial relationship between cartographic and literary representations of the nation and its geography. While examining atlases, almanacs, itineraries, and other materials, Adam Sills focuses particularly on the construction of heterotopias in the works of John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen. These "other" spaces, such as neighborhood, home, and country, are not reducible to the map but have played an equally important role in the shaping of British national identity.

Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important, against it.

Adam Sills is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Charlottesville
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 333 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8139-4598-4 / 0813945984
ISBN-13 978-0-8139-4598-9 / 9780813945989
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