Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety

ISBN-13: 9780198816874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Chris Barrett

Opis

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 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space.

Recenzje

...this is a work of considerable intellectual commitment and authority, deeply immersed in the complex literary texts on which Barrett focuses and founded upon exceptional skills of textual analysis.

O autorze

Chris Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she joined the faculty in 2012 after completing her doctoral degree in English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature, especially Spenser and Milton; lyric and epic poetry; critical animal studies and ecocriticism; and geocritical approaches to literature. She is the author of articles and essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, and her research has been supported by the Council on Research, the Newberry Library, the Folger Library, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum & Collection.