The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies

Neal Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University (UK). His publications include Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place (2022), Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Post-war Poetry (co-edited with David Cooper; 2013) and Regional Modernisms (co-edited with James Moran; 2013). David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing. He has published widely on literary geographies and co-edited Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (with Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta-Flores; 2016).

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Neal Alexander and David Cooper

Part I: Critical methodologies

1. Reading literature, reading geography

Marc Brosseau

2. Relational literary geographies

Sheila Hones

3. Literary geographies and the limits of representation

Hayden Lorimer

4. Literary assemblages

Jon Anderson

5. Postcolonial literary geographies

Madhu Krishnan and Penny Cartwright

6. Literature, environment, geography

Jos Smith

7. Mapping literature

Sara Luchetta

Part II: Keywords

8. Space

Peter Merriman

9. Place

Sten Pultz Moslund

10. Landscape

John Wylie

11. Region

Juha Ridanpää

12. Mobilities

Lynne Pearce

13. Diaspora

Françoise Král

Part III: Literary geography and literary history

14. Paths and parchment: Medieval literary geographies

Marianne O’Doherty

15. Geographies of early modern English literatures and the place of the stage

Julie Sanders

16. The eighteenth century: Sights, scales, travels

Robert Mayhew

17. Romantic literary geographies

Penny Bradshaw

18. The nineteenth century

David McLaughlin

19. Literary geographies of modernism

Neal Alexander

20. Contemporary literary geography

Alexander Beaumont

Part IV: Places, spaces, and landforms

21. The city

Monica Manolescu

22. Islands

Uma Kothari and Joseph Palis

23. Rivers

Sarah de Leeuw

24. The sea

John Brannigan

25. Mountains

Jonathan Westaway

26. Borderlands

Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo

27. Utopias

Jamie Harris

28. Outer Space

James Kneale

Part V: Forms and genres

29. The novel: Performing Black geographies in African American fiction

Herman Beavers

30. Geo graphien

James Riding and Olivia Mason

31. Poetry

Heather H. Yeung

32. Drama and performance

Laurence Publicover

33. Comics

Giada Peterle

Part VI: Beyond the academy

34. Murderscapes, deathscapes, and workscapes in Québec’s Eastern Townships fiction and ‘immersive literary geographies’

Ceri Morgan

35. Experiential literary geography in the mind and in Minecraft

Sally Bushell

36. Literary river-walking and the politics of place-making

Emily Potter and Brigid Magner

37. Trees, texts, and place-based education: The pedagogic potential of literary geography

David Cooper and Christopher Hanley

Afterword

38. Geography and the creative writer

Tim Cresswell

Index