Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing

ISBN-13: 9781611492408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 286 str.

Jeffrey N. Peters

Opis

Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing.