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Mapping Discord
Jeffrey N. Peters
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Description for Mapping Discord
Hardback. Num Pages: 286 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 585.
Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in the seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional ... Read more
Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in the seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611492408
SKU
V9781611492408
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About Jeffrey N. Peters
Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.
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