The Cartographic Imagination In Early Modern England

Author : D.K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Donald Kimball Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1315614332

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

Author : Patrick J. Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Claire Jowitt,David McInnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108471183

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Travel and Drama in Early Modern England by Claire Jowitt,David McInnis Pdf

Offers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between early modern travel and drama, and re-assesses how travel drama is defined.

Author : Chris Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198816874

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Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety by Chris Barrett Pdf

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 16th and 17th century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space

Author : Christine Petto
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,9 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

Mapping and Charting for the Lion and the Lily: Map and Atlas Production in Early Modern England and France 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, the cartographic center of production from the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century, and London, which began to emerge (in the late eighteenth century) to eclipse the once favored Bourbon center. The themes that carry through the work address the role of government in map and chart making. In France, in particular, it is the importance of the centralized government and its support for geographic works and their makers through a broad and deep institutional infrastructure. Prior to the late eighteenth century in England, there was no central controlling agency or institution for map, chart, or atlas production, and any official power was imposed through the market rather than through the establishment of institutions. There was no centralized support for the cartographic enterprise and any effort by the crown was often challenged by the power of Parliament which saw little value in fostering or supporting scholar-geographers or a national survey. This book begins with an investigation of the imagery of power on map and atlas frontispieces from the late sixteenth century to the seventeenth century. In the succeeding chapters the focus moves from county and regional mapping efforts in England and France to the “paper wars” over encroachment in their respective colonial interests. The final study looks at charting efforts and highlights the role of government support and the commercial trade in the development of maritime charts not only for the home waters of the English Channel, but the distant and dangerous seas of the East Indies.

Author : B. Klein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Tara E. Pedersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317097211

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Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England by Tara E. Pedersen Pdf

We no longer ascribe the term ’mermaid’ to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid’s image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid’s existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates.

Author : S. P. Cerasano
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780838642696

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by S. P. Cerasano Pdf

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ENGLAND, now over twenty years in publication, is an international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. MaRDiE 23 features essays by MacDonald P. Jackson on authorship as related to Shakespeare, Kyd, and Arden of Faversham. James Hirsh considers the editing of Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be' in light of both conventional and emerging editorial theory. Politics and prophecy, as they influence Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay is at the centre of Brian Walsh's contribution, while John Curran uses declamation as a rhetorical strategy in order to focus on character in the Fletcher-Massinger plays. Chris Fitter considers vagrancy and 'vestry values' in Shakespeare's As You Like It and June Schlueter reconsiders the matter of theatrical cartography and The View of London from the North. The collection of reviews range from books on early modern dietaries and Shakespeare's plays to those on male friendship and theatre economics.

Author : Steve Mentz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452945545

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Shipwreck Modernity by Steve Mentz Pdf

Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ecology, and shipwreck modernity. The years during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also a time when maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon makers, and many others. Through coming to terms with shipwreck, these figures adapted to disruptive change. Traces of shipwreck ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne to Defoe and also in sermons, tales of survival, amateur poetry, and the diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors. The isolated islands of Bermuda and the perils of divine anger hold central places. Modern sailor-poets including Herman Melville serve as valuable touchstones in the effort to parse the reality and understandings of global shipwreck. Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern shipwreck narratives, Shipwreck Modernity reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these early stories of ecological collapse.

Author : R. Sanford
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122359289

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The Spenser Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katja Pilhuj
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cartography in literature
ISBN : 9463722017

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Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage by Katja Pilhuj Pdf

In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists -- men and women -- conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066188452

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Spenser Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katharina N. Piechocki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226641218

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Cartographic Humanism by Katharina N. Piechocki Pdf

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries. What is “Europe,” and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term “Europe” circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.