Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain

Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 298
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521803772
ISBN-13 : 9780521803779
Rating : 4/5 (779 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain by : Andrew Gordon

Download or read book Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain written by Andrew Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely collection, an international team of Renaissance scholars analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britian argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.


Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain Related Books

Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Andrew Gordon
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

In this timely collection, an international team of Renaissance scholars analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mo
Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: B. Klein
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-11 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meaning
Plotting Early Modern London
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Dieter Mehl
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained
The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: D.K. Smith
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

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 e
Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Katarzyna Lecky
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She e