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 | | Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain by Andrew Gordon (Editor), Bernhard Klein (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780521803779 ISBN-10: 0-521-80377-2 ISBN-13: 9780521803779 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80377-9 Hardcover 2001-08-27 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This collection 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, it argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain. | ||
Book Description 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. | ||