Intellectual And Imaginative Cartographies In Early Modern England

Author : Patrick J. Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000635799

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Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England by Patrick J. Murray Pdf

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus’s arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists. It surveys how early modern people used the map as an object, whether for enjoyment or political campaigning, colonial invasion or teaching in the classroom. Exploring a wide range of literature, from educational manifestoes to the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare, it suggests that the early modern map was as diverse and various as the rich culture from which it emerged, and was imbued with a whole range of political, social, literary and personal impulses. Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 will appeal to all those interested in the History of Cartography

Author : D.K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317039334

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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England by D.K. Smith Pdf

Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.

Author : Patrick J. Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cartography
ISBN : OCLC:933360204

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'Of Meridians and Parallels - Man Hath Weav'd Out a Net' by Patrick J. Murray Pdf

Author : Jonathan Sawday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192845641

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Blanks, Space, Print, and Void in English Renaissance Literature by Jonathan Sawday Pdf

Blanks, Space, Print, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in the first place). It re-imagines how early modern people reacted not just to printed books and documents of many different kinds, but also how the very idea of emptiness or absence began to be fashioned in a way which still surrounds us. Jonathan Sawday leads the reader through the entire landscape of early modern print culture, discussing topics such as: space and silence; the exploration of the vacuum; the ways in which race and racial identity in early modern England were constructed by the language and technology of print; blackness and whiteness, together with lightness, darkness, and sightlessness; cartography and emptiness; the effect of typography on reading practices; the social spaces of the page; gendered surfaces; hierarchies of information; books of memory; pages constructed as waste or vacant; the genesis of blank forms and early modern bureaucracy; the political and devotional spaces of printed books; the impact of censorship; and the problem posed by texts which lack endings or conclusions. The book itself ends by dwelling on blank or empty pages as a sign of human mortality. Sawday pays close attention to the writings of many of the familiar figures in English Renaissance literary culture - Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton, for example - as well as introducing readers to a host of lesser-known figures. The book also discusses the work of numerous women writers from the period, including Aphra Behn, Ann Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Lady Jane Gray, Lucy Hutchinson, Æmelia Lanyer, Isabella Whitney, and Lady Mary Wroth.

Author : B. Klein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230598119

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

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.

Author : Donald Kimball Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1315614332

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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England by Donald Kimball Smith Pdf

Author : Christine Petto
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739175378

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Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France by Christine Petto Pdf

This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London.

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 1861890117

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Trading Territories by Jerry Brotton Pdf

In this generously illustrated book, Jerry Brotton documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixteenth century, and suggests that they tell us a great deal about the transformation of European culture at the end of the early modern era. He examines the age's fascination with maps, charts, and globes as both texts and artifacts that provided their owners with a promise of gain, be it intellectual, political, or financial.

Author : R. Sanford
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312294557

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Maps and Memory in Early Modern England by R. Sanford Pdf

Dealing with the relationship between the places of England and depictions of places in maps and literature, "Maps and Memory" focuses on increasingly local terrain to show how understanding contemporary maps is useful to understanding literary works of the time.

Author : Margaret Mary Roland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1003096247

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Mirror of the World by Margaret Mary Roland Pdf

"In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy's second century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era-the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this 'Ptolemaic revival.' As a result, the impact of Ptolemy's text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms"--

Author : Ingrid Baumgärtner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501516047

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Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps by Ingrid Baumgärtner Pdf

This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.

Author : Palmira Brummett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107090774

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Mapping the Ottomans by Palmira Brummett Pdf

This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.

Author : Deanna Smid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004344044

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The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature by Deanna Smid Pdf

Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, particularly imagination’s effects on the body and on women, its restraint by reason, and its ability to create novelty.

Author : Kyle Wanberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534950

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Maps of Empire by Kyle Wanberg Pdf

During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.

Author : Alberto Toscano,Jeff Kinkle
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782799733

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Cartographies of the Absolute by Alberto Toscano,Jeff Kinkle Pdf

Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibility and complexity of the abstractions that rule our lives.