Standard Deviations: Genre, Gender, and the Cartographical Imagination in Popular British Literature, 1830-1880
Journal: CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York)
Year: 2014

While cartography is understood to undergird the spatial interventions integral to Victorian reform in areas such as sewerage and housing, little critical attention has been paid to the influence of cartographical discourse in itself, rather than through its concrete products, as a force that fundamentally altered nineteenth-century conceptions of self, other, and environment. Standard Deviations fills that gap, studying the changing parameters of spatial epistemology by monitoring expanding and