Mapping with Words : : Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 / / Sarah Wylie Krotz.
Mapping with Words re-conceptualizes settler writing as literary cartography. The topographical descriptions of early Canadian settler writers generated not only picturesque and sublime landscapes, but also verbal maps. These worked to orient readers, reinforcing and expanding the cartographic order...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index