Romantic Cartographies
Mapping, Literature, Culture, 1789–1832

An innovative, interdisciplinary study of cartography as a significant multifaceted cultural practice in Romantic period culture.

Sally Bushell (Edited by), Julia S. Carlson (Edited by), Damian Walford Davies (Edited by)

9781108472388, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 December 2020

320 pages, 29 b/w illus.
24 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.75 kg

'Romantic Cartographies succeeds in illustrating the material form and production of maps in different social, intellectual and national settings and in illuminating the cultural and political connections between literary culture and mapmaking.' Charles W. J. Withers, IMAGO MUNDI

Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period sought to map and spatialise itself, the volume also considers the engagement of our own digital cultures with Romanticism's 'map-mindedness'. Original, exploratory essays engage with a wide range of cartographic projects, objects and experiences in Britain, and globally. Subjects range from Wordsworth, Clare and Walter Scott, to Romantic board games and geographical primers, to reveal the pervasiveness of the cartographic imagination in private and public spheres. Bringing together literary analysis, creative practice, geography, cartography, history, politics and contemporary technologies – just as the cartographic enterprise did in the Romantic period itself – Romantic Cartographies enriches our understanding of what it means to 'map' literature and culture.

Introduction: Mapping Romanticism Sally Bushell, Julia S. Carlson,and Damian Walford Davies
Part I. Romantic Maps, Romantic Mapping: 1. Cartography and Natural History in Late Eighteenth-Century Canada Alan Bewell
2. 'That Experienced Surveyor, Colonel Mudge': Romantic Representations of the Ordnance Survey Mapmaker, 1791-1830 Rachel Hewitt
3. The British Atlas: Britton and Brayley's National Survey Stephen Daniels
4. Mapping Invasion: Cartography, Caricature, Frames of Reading Damian Walford Davies
Part II. Cartographic Encounters: 5. Producing and Protesting Imperial Map-Mindedness: Multimodal Pedagogy and Feminist Frustration in Sarah Atkins Wilson's Geographical Primers Carl Thompson
6. Romantic Board Games and the 'World in Play' Siobhan Carroll
7. Carto-tactual Subjects: Promoting the Education of the Blind in Romantic -era France and Britain Julia S Carlson
8. Wordsworth and Mandelbrot on the Coast of Britain Joshua Wilner
Part III. Beyond Romantic Cartographies: 9. Deep Mapping and Romanticism: 'Practical' Geography in the Poetry of Sir Walter Scott Christopher Donaldson
10. Unmapping John Clare: Circularity, Linearity, Temporality Sally Bushell
11. The Problem of Precedent: Mapping the Post-Romantic Lake District David Cooper
12. Maps without Territory: Disappearing Trelawney Town Paul Youngquist.

Subject Areas: Cartography, map-making & projections [RGV], Literature & literary studies [D], Art & design styles: Romanticism [ACVC]