Mapping discord
Subtitle: allegorical cartography in early modern French writing
By: Jeffrey N. Peters.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: French fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Maps in literature.; Allegories.; Cartography.
Description: "Engaging the fields of French studies, literary theory, the history of cartography and geography, and women's studies, Mapping Discord discovers in the phenomenon of allegorical cartography important theoretical questions about the relations in seventeenth-century France between power, history, rationalist discourses of science, and the figural designs of imaginative writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-278) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan, 1996) presented under the title: Scavoir la carte: Allegorical maps and the cartographics of culture in seventeenth-century France.