Book: Maps And The Writing Of Space In Early Modern England And Ireland Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, and idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space. Combining cartographic history with crucial cultural studies and literary analysis, this book examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in he literary works of Marlowe. Shakespeare, Spenser, and Drayton.
Details of Book: Maps And The Writing Of Space In Early Modern England And Ireland Book: Maps And The Writing Of Space In Early Modern England And Ireland
Author: Bernhard Klein
ISBN: 0333779339
ISBN-13: 9780333779330
, 978-0333779330
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number of Pages: 264
Language: English