{"product_id":"early-modern-english-literature-and-the-poetics-of-cartographic-anxiety-hardcover","title":"Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household decor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the\u003cbr\u003esocioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. \u003cem\u003eEarly Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e is the first monograph dedicated to recovering the shadow history of the many anxieties provoked\u003cbr\u003eby early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain (in ways not dissimilar from the anxieties provoked by global positioning-enabled\u003cbr\u003edigital mapping in the twenty-first century). At the same time, writers saw in the resistance to cartographic logics and strategies the opportunity to rethink the way literature represents space--and everything else. This volume explores three major poems of the period--Edmund Spenser's \u003cem\u003eThe Faerie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eQueene\u003c\/em\u003e (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton's \u003cem\u003ePoly-Olbion \u003c\/em\u003e(1612, 1622), and John Milton's \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost \u003c\/em\u003e(1667, 1674)--in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts redefined concepts of allegory, description, \u003cbr\u003epersonification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy, and other elemental components of literary representations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Barrett, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she joined the faculty in 2012 after completing her doctoral degree in English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature, especially Spenser and Milton; lyric and epic poetry; critical animal studies and ecocriticism; and geocritical approaches to literature. She is the author of articles and essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, and her research has been supported by the Council on Research, the Newberry Library, the Folger Library, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum \u0026amp; Collection.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336880439545,"sku":"9780198816874","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Pj1Hv3jH-u9780198816874.webp?v=1769671473","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/early-modern-english-literature-and-the-poetics-of-cartographic-anxiety-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}