Early Modern English Literature And The Poetics Of Cartographic Anxiety (Early Modern Literary Geographies)

This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers. The volume shows how late 16th and 17th century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space

• | Author: Chris Barrett
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0198816871
• | ISBN-13: 9780198816874