Patrick Murray

Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781032060262
• ISBN-10: 1032060263
• Artikelnr.: 70346999

Autorenporträt

Patrick J. Murray, PhD, is a researcher specialising in early modern literature. His primary research and teaching interests focus on the interdisciplinary interfaces of cartography, literary representation and cultural fashioning in the period 1550-1750.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Weaving the Net
Chapter 1: 'they say the world's in one of them': The World of the Map
Chapter 2: 'Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize': Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton
Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland
Chapter 4: 'There is none so good lernynge': Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises
Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science
Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies
Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar's Cartographies
Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future

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Introduction: Weaving the Net / Chapter 1: 'they say the world's in one of them': The World of the Map / Chapter 2: 'Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize': Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton / Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland / Chapter 4: 'There is none so good lernynge': Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises / Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science / Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies / Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar's Cartographies / Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future

Rezensionen

'Patrick J. Murray's new book is an important contribution to the literature pertaining to critical cartography and literary geography in early modern England. Brought out in the Routledge series, Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge, this volume explores the emerging geographic consciousness in early modern English intellectual culture with erudition' - IMAGO MUNDI vol. 75/2 (2023).