Mapping with Words : Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 /

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Mapping with Words re-conceptualizes settler writing as literary cartography. The topographical descriptions of early Canadian settler writers generated not only picturesque and sublime landscapes, but also verbal maps. These worked to orient readers, reinforcing and expanding the cartographic order...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krotz, Sarah Wylie, 1977− (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature.
Cartography in literature.
Canadian literature.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Cartographie dans la litterature.
Canadian literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English) > 19th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Canada.
Canada > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Maps and Text-Maps; 1 Illuminating the Horizon: The Cartographic Aesthetics of Two Early Long Poems; 2 The Land up Close: Mapping Disorder in Roughing It in the Bush; 3 The Intimate Geography of Wilderness: The Spatiality of Catharine Parr Traill's Botanical Inventories; 4 Writing and Reading the Northwest: George Monro Grant and the Palimpsest of Settler Space; 5 The Poet in Treaty Territory: The Literary Cartography of "The Height of Land"; Conclusion: Maps and Counter-Maps (On Getting Lost); Appendix of Figures; Notes; Bibliography

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