Use of imaginary, historical, and actual maps in literature: how British and Irish authors created imaginary worlds to tell their stories (Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien, etc.)
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Main Author: Wyatt, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewiston Edwin Mellen 2013
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Item Description:In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkien's Middle Earth, or Stevenson's Treasure Island. There are also maps that try to catch a certain historical moment like an urban space at a particular time period, or a rural environment. While maps had historically guided travel, in literature they provide an escape mechanism that transports the audience to an unfamiliar place
ISBN:9780773444287
0773444289
0773445471
9780773445475

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