Sarah Wylie Krotz

Mapping with Words

Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916

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Produktbeschreibung

Mapping with Words re-conceptualizes early Canadian settler writing as literary cartography. Examining the multitude of ways in which writers expanded the work of mapmakers, it offers fresh readings of both familiar and obscure texts from the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781442650121
• ISBN-10: 1442650125
• Artikelnr.: 49396255

Autorenporträt

Sarah Wylie Krotz is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Maps and Text-Maps
1. Illuminating the Horizon:
The Cartographic Aesthetics of Two Early Long Poems
2. The Land Up Close:
Mapping Disorder in Roughing It in the Bush
3. The Intimate Geography of Wilderness:
The Spatiality of Catharine Parr Traill’s Botanical Inventories
4. Writing and Reading the Northwest:
George Monro Grant and the Palimpsest of Settler Space
5. The Poet in Treaty Territory:
The Literary Cartography of "The Height of Land"
Conclusion: Maps and Counter-Maps (On Getting Lost)
Appendix of Figures