Self-Made Map : Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France /

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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conley, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Maps in literature.
Cartography.
HISTORY > General.
Cartes geographiques dans la litterature.
Cartographie > France > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Cartography > France > History > 16th century.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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