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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England Re-writing the World in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell
By D.K. Smith
Copyright 2008
216 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
214 Pages
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Routledge
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Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the cartographic imagination; 'To passe the see in shortt space': re-mapping the medieval world in the Digby Mary Magdalen; The transformation of seeing: Christopher Saxton and the development of the cartographic imagination; From allegorical space to a geographical world: mapping cultural memory in The Faerie Queen; Conquering geography: Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe, and the cartographic imagination; 'Tis not, what it once was, the world': Andrew Marvell's re-mapping of old and new in Bermudas and Upon Appleton House; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
D.K. Smith is Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University, USA.
’...Including good notes and bibliography, this well-written, accessible book will be of most interest to specialists... Recommended.’ Choice ’... an invigorating and worthwhile addition to the ongoing discussion of cartography's influence on Renaissance literature.’ Sixteenth Century Journal '[This book is a] valuable contribution to the current interest in cultural exchange and diversity... Embod[ies] interesting and important material about circumstances in the past and about attitudes pertaining to them.' Notes and Queries
