1st Edition

Literary Atlas Plotting a New Literary Geography

By Jon Anderson Copyright 2025
234 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales. It introduces an innovative "plotted" approach which empowers reading, creates connections to localities, histories, and communities, and inspires interest in literature and geography. It showcases how literary geographies can be mobilized through the plotted approach to reading. Through... Read more

Chapter 1. Plotting a new future for literary geographies

Chapter 2. Literary geographies and interdisciplinarity

Chapter 3. New literary geographies: a confluence of approaches and disciplines

Chapter 4. New literary geographies: an emergent Literary Atlas

Chapter 5. Locating the Literary Atlas: developing plot-points

Chapter 6. Locating the Literary Atlas: deepening plot-points

Chapter 7. Expanding the field: visualizing plots through cartographic art

Chapter 8. Evaluating the plotted approach: authorial engagements

Chapter 9 Evaluating the plotted approach: reading groups and reading plots

Chapter 10. Engaging publics: the Literary Atlas online

Chapter 11 Engaging publics: creative excursions into the borderlands

Chapter 12. Engaging publics: evaluating the Literary Atlas exhibitions

Chapter 13. Conclusion – “touch life often”: the plotted approach to literary geographies

Biography

Jon Anderson is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK. His research interests focus on the relations between identity, culture, and place, in particular the actions, practices, and politics that such relations produce. His recent publications include a monograph titled Surfing Spaces (2023) and the third edition of Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces (2021).