Literary Cartographies

Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world.

Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world.

Introduction: Mapping Narratives; Robert T. Tally Jr. 1. What Lies Between?: Thinking Through Medieval Narrative Spatiality; Robert Allen Rouse 2. Plotting One's Position in Don Quijote : Literature and the Process of Cognitive Mapping; Jeanette E. Goddard 3. "Eyes that have dwelt on the past": Reading the Landscape of Memory in The Mill on the Floss ; Alice Tsay 4. Mapping Hardy and Brontë; Susan Cook 5. "She sought a spiritual heir": Cosmopolitanism and the Pre-suburban in Howards End ; Heather McNaugher 6. The Space of Russia in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes ; John G. Peters 7. "History, Mystery, Leisure, Pleasure": Evelyn Waugh, Bruno Latour, and the Ocean Liner; Shawna Ross 8. To the South England, to the West Eternity: Mapping Boundlessness in Modern Scottish Fiction; Jenny Pyke 9. Leaving the Landscape: Mapping Elsewhereness in Canadian City Literature; Myles Chilton 10. Mapping Tokyo's "Empty Center" in Oyama's A Man with No Talents ; Barbara E. Thornbury 11. Mapping the Personal in Contemporary German Literature; Anne B. Wallen 12. Charting the Extraordinary: Sentient and Transontological Spaces; Rhona Trauvitch 13. On and Off the Map: Literary Narrative as Critique of Cartographic Reason; Derek Schilling