1st Edition
Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England
Introduction: Weaving the Net
Chapter 1: ‘they say the world’s in one of them’: The World of the Map
Politics and Mapping in Early Modern Britain
Chapter 2: ‘Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize’: Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton
Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland
‘What is Cosmographie?’: Teaching the Science of World Describing
Chapter 4: ‘There is none so good lernynge’: Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises
Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science
Maps on stage and page
Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies
Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar’s Cartographies
Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future
Bibliography
Biography
Patrick J. Murray, PhD, is a researcher specialising in early modern literature. His primary research and teaching interests focus on the interdisciplinary interfaces of cartography, literary representation and cultural fashioning in the period 1550-1750.
‘Patrick J. Murray’s new book is an important contribution to the literature pertaining to critical cartography and literary geography in early modern England. Brought out in the Routledge series, Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge, this volume explores the emerging geographic consciousness in early modern English intellectual culture with erudition’ - IMAGO MUNDI vol. 75/2 (2023).
