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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 June 2020
      02 July 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108766876
      9781108487450
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766876
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.84kg, 350 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1830-1900
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    Do we map as we read? How central to our experience of literature is the way in which we spatialise and visualise a fictional world? Reading and Mapping Fiction offers a fresh approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the emergence of a fictional map alongside the text in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bringing together a range of new and emerging theories, including cognitive mapping and critical cartography, Bushell compellingly argues that this activity, whatever it is called – mapping, diagramming, visualising, spatialising – is a vital and intrinsic part of how we experience literature, and of what makes it so powerful. Drawing on both the theory and history of literature and cartography, this richly illustrated study opens up understanding of spatial meaning and interpretation in new ways that are relevant to both more traditional academic scholarship and to newly emerging digital practices.

    Reviews

    ‘… the author crafts a revelatory hermeneutic tool for exploring the virtues of literature by innovatively blending aspects of cognition, cartography, and criticism. Bushell focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries - including reflections on genres and individuals, but her thinking extends into the digital age.’

    H. I. Einsohn Source: Choice

    ‘… this monograph offers an innovative method for understanding the literature and maps of the long-nineteenth century, original ways of reading the century's new and dominant genres, an explanation of what happens to us when we encounter maps in novels as readers, and a guide to the possibilities of future digital humanities projects.’

    Sophie Welsh Source: Romance, Revolution and Reform

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