The cartographic imagination in early modern England
Subtitle: re-writing the world in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell
By: D.K. Smith.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780754656203
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Criticism and interpretation; Spenser, Edmund, -- 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation; Raleigh, Walter, -- Sir, -- 1552?-1618 -- Criticism and interpretation; Marvell, Andrew, -- 1621-1678 -- Criticism and interpretation; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Maps in literature; Cartography -- England -- History -- 16th century; Cartography -- England -- History -- 17th century; Geography in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'To passe the see in shortt space': mapping the medieval world in the Digby Mary Magdalen; title: The transformation of seeing: Christopher Saxton and the development of the cartographic imagination; title: From allegorical space to a geographical world: mapping cultural memory in The Faerie Queene; title: Conquering geography: Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe and the cartographic imagination; title: 'Tis not, what once it was, the world': Andrew Marvell's re-mapping of Old and New in Bermudas and Upon Appleton House.