Barrett, Chris
Early modern English literature and the poetics of cartographic anxiety / Chris Barrett. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xv, 227 p. : maps ; 23 cm. - Early modern literary geographies . - Early modern literary geographies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
Introduction: Mapping anxiety in early modern English literature -- The dream of an unmappable nation: allegory, cartography, and Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Time river body: personification and inappropriate detail in Drayton's Poly-Olbion -- Milton's Paradise Lost and the atlas of violence -- Conclusion: Wonders in the deep.
"The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household decor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the socioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph dedicated to recovering the shadow history of the many anxieties provoked by early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain (in ways not dissimilar from the anxieties provoked by global positioning-enabled digital mapping in the twenty-first century). At the same time, writers saw in the resistance to cartographic logics and strategies the opportunity to rethink the way literature represents space--and everything else. This volume explores three major poems of the period--Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)--in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts redefined concepts of allegory, description, personification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy, and other elemental components of literary representations."--
9780198816874
2017950310
GBB822406 bnb
018717143 Uk
Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599 The faerie queene
Drayton, Michael 1563-1631 The Poly-Olbion
Milton, John 1608-1674 Paradise lost
1500-1700
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Cartography--History--Great Britain--16th century.
Maps in literature.
Cartography.
English literature--Early modern.
Maps in literature.
Kartografie
Frühneuenglisch
Literatur
18.05 English literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
820.9003 / B2753
Early modern English literature and the poetics of cartographic anxiety / Chris Barrett. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xv, 227 p. : maps ; 23 cm. - Early modern literary geographies . - Early modern literary geographies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
Introduction: Mapping anxiety in early modern English literature -- The dream of an unmappable nation: allegory, cartography, and Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Time river body: personification and inappropriate detail in Drayton's Poly-Olbion -- Milton's Paradise Lost and the atlas of violence -- Conclusion: Wonders in the deep.
"The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household decor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the socioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph dedicated to recovering the shadow history of the many anxieties provoked by early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain (in ways not dissimilar from the anxieties provoked by global positioning-enabled digital mapping in the twenty-first century). At the same time, writers saw in the resistance to cartographic logics and strategies the opportunity to rethink the way literature represents space--and everything else. This volume explores three major poems of the period--Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)--in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts redefined concepts of allegory, description, personification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy, and other elemental components of literary representations."--
9780198816874
2017950310
GBB822406 bnb
018717143 Uk
Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599 The faerie queene
Drayton, Michael 1563-1631 The Poly-Olbion
Milton, John 1608-1674 Paradise lost
1500-1700
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Cartography--History--Great Britain--16th century.
Maps in literature.
Cartography.
English literature--Early modern.
Maps in literature.
Kartografie
Frühneuenglisch
Literatur
18.05 English literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
820.9003 / B2753