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Author:

Smith, Donald Kimball.

Title:

The cartographic imagination in early modern England : re-writing the world in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell / D.K. Smith.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

204 p. : ill., maps, plans, facisms ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202) and index.

Contents:

'To passe the see in shortt space' : re-mapping the medieval world in the Digby Mary Magdalen -- The transformation of seeing : Christopher Saxton and the development of the cartographic imagination -- From allegorical space to a geographical world : mapping cultural memory in The Faerie Queene -- Conquering geography : Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe and the cartographic imagination -- 'Tis not, what once it was, the world' : Andrew Marvell's re-mapping of Old and New in Bermudas and Upon Appleton House.

ISBN:

0754656209 (alk. paper)
9780754656203 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007035131

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)