Self-Made Map : Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France /
In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that "a new cartographic impulse" during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
University of Minnesota Press,
1996.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Franco-Burgundian Backgrounds: Some Figural Relations with Space; 2. The Letter and the Grid: Geoffroy Tory; 3. Oronce Fine: A Well-Rounded Signature; 4. Words la Carte: A Rabelaisian Map; 5. An Insular Moment: From Cosmography to Ethnography; 6. An Atlas Evolves: Maurice Bouguereau, Le theâtre françoys; 7. Montaigne: A Political Geography of the Self; 8. La Popeliniere and Descartes: Signatures in Perspective; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.