Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland

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Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland

Author	: B. Klein
File Size	: 45,5 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 11 January 2001
ISBN	: 9780230598119
Pages	: 252 pages

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Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland by B. Klein Book PDF Summary

Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh analysis of the mental and material mapping of early modern England and Ireland. Combining cartographic history with critical cultural studies and literary analysis, it examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton.

Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland by B. Klein

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