The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.

Introduction: The Reassertion of Space in Literary Studies

Robert T. Tally Jr.

Part I. Spatial Theory and Practice



1. In, Of, Out, With, and Through: New Perspectives in Literary Geography



Marc Brosseau



2. Critical Literary Geography



Andrew Thacker



3. Senses of Place



Neal Alexander



4. Inventions of Space: Deleuze between Concept and Event

Tom Conley



5. Phenomenology, Place, and the Spatial Turn



Eric Prieto



6. Spatializing Practices at the Intersections: Representations and Productions of Spaces



Gerhard van den Heever

Part II. Critical Methodologies



7. Literary Geography and the Digital: The Emergence of Neogeography



Peta Mitchell



8. Reading as Mapping



Christina Ljungberg



9. Sound and Rhythm in Literary Space-Time



Sheila Hones



10. Elizabeth Bishop In and Out of Place: A Topopoetic Approach



Tim Cresswell



11. Literature Across Scales



Hsuan L. Hsu



12. Digital Literary Cartographies: Mapping British Romanticism



David Cooper



13. Literature and Land Surveying



Sarah Luria

Part III. Work Sites



14. Atopia / Non-Place



Siobhan Carroll



15. Heterotopies: The Possible and the Real in Foucault, Beckett, and Calvino



Amanda Dennis



16. Dreams, Memories, Longings: The Dimension of Projected Places in Fiction



Barbara Piatti



17. Imaginative Regions



Juha Ridanpää



18. Neighbourhoods: Thick Description in the City



Julie Sanders



19. Islands: Literary Geographies of Possession, Separation, and Transformation



James Kneale



20. Island Spatialities



Johannes Riquet

Part IV. Cities and the Geography of Urban Experience



21. The City Novel: Measuring Referential, Spatial, Linguistic, and Temporal Distances

Lieven Ameel



22. From the City of London to the Desert Island: Defoe and the Writing of Space and Place



Emmanuelle Peraldo



23. The Speculative Fictional Mapping of Literary Johannesburg’s Spaces in Beukes’s Zoo City and Grey’s The Mall



Irikidzayi Manase



24. Space of Difference in Subterranean Toronto

Amy Lavender Harris



25. On This Spot: Materialism, Memory, and the Politics of Absence in Greenwich Village

Elayne Tobin



26. The Following is an Account of What Happened: Plot, Space, and the Art of Shadowing



Jean-François Duclos

Part V. Maps, Territories, Readings



27. From the Spatial Turn to the Spacetime-Vitalist Turn: Mahjoub’s Navigation of a Rainmaker and Owuor’s Dust



Russell West-Pavlov



28. Environmental Determinism and American Literature: Historicizing Geography and Form

Rebecca Walsh



29. Mapping Without Maps: Memory and Cartography in Las Casas’s Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies



Ricardo Padrón



30. Joycean Chronotopography: Homer, Dante, Ulysses



Charles Travis



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