The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-56433-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 462 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1057 g

Reihe: Routledge Literature Handbooks

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the field.

Written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, the 38 chapters are organised into six themed sections, which consider: differing critical methodologies; keywords and concepts; literary geography in the light of literary history; a variety of places, spaces, and landforms; the significance of literary forms and genres; and the role of literary geographies beyond the academy. Presenting the work of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, each section offers readers new angles from which to view the convergence of literary creativity and geographical thought. Collectively, the contributors also address some of the major issues of our time including the climate emergency, movement and migration, and the politics of place.

Literary geography is a dynamic interdisciplinary field dedicated to exploring the complex relationships between geography and literature. This cutting-edge collection will be an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in both Geography and Literary Studies, and scholars interested in the evolving interface between the two disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Neal

Cooper, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Acknowledgements



Introduction

Neal Alexander and David Cooper



Part I: Critical methodologies

1. Reading literature, reading geography

Marc Brosseau

2. Relational literary geographies

Sheila Hones

3. Literary geographies and the limits of representation

Hayden Lorimer

4. Literary assemblages

Jon Anderson

5. Postcolonial literary geographies

Madhu Krishnan and Penny Cartwright

6. Literature, environment, geography

Jos Smith

7. Mapping literature

Sara Luchetta



Part II: Keywords

8. Space

Peter Merriman

9. Place

Sten Pultz Moslund

10. Landscape

John Wylie

11. Region

Juha Ridanpää

12. Mobilities

Lynne Pearce

13. Diaspora

Françoise Král



Part III: Literary geography and literary history

14. Paths and parchment: Medieval literary geographies

Marianne O’Doherty

15. Geographies of early modern English literatures and the place of the stage

Julie Sanders

16. The eighteenth century: Sights, scales, travels

Robert Mayhew

17. Romantic literary geographies

Penny Bradshaw

18. The nineteenth century

David McLaughlin

19. Literary geographies of modernism

Neal Alexander

20. Contemporary literary geography

Alexander Beaumont



Part IV: Places, spaces, and landforms

21. The city

Monica Manolescu

22. Islands

Uma Kothari and Joseph Palis

23. Rivers

Sarah de Leeuw

24. The sea

John Brannigan

25. Mountains

Jonathan Westaway

26. Borderlands

Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo

27. Utopias

Jamie Harris

28. Outer Space

James Kneale



Part V: Forms and genres

29. The novel: Performing Black geographies in African American fiction

Herman Beavers

30. Geo graphien

James Riding and Olivia Mason

31. Poetry

Heather H. Yeung

32. Drama and performance

Laurence Publicover

33. Comics

Giada Peterle



Part VI: Beyond the academy

34. Murderscapes, deathscapes, and workscapes in Québec’s Eastern Townships fiction and ‘immersive literary geographies’

Ceri Morgan

35. Experiential literary geography in the mind and in Minecraft

Sally Bushell

36. Literary river-walking and the politics of place-making

Emily Potter and Brigid Magner

37. Trees, texts, and place-based education: The pedagogic potential of literary geography

David Cooper and Christopher Hanley



Afterword

38. Geography and the creative writer

Tim Cresswell



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neal Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-century Literature at Aberystwyth University (UK). His publications include Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place (2022), Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Post-War Poetry (co-edited with David Cooper; 2013) and Regional Modernisms (co-edited with James Moran; 2013).

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing. His many critical and creative publications on literary geographies include Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (with Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta-Flores; 2016) and the pamphlet, The Duddon Estuary: The Myriad Lines of its Relations (2021).