The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the field.

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Neal Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-century Literature at Aberystwyth University (UK). His publications include Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place (2022), Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Post-War Poetry (co-edited with David Cooper; 2013) and Regional Modernisms (co-edited with James Moran; 2013).

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing. His many critical and creative publications on literary geographies include Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (with Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta-Flores; 2016) and the pamphlet, The Duddon Estuary: The Myriad Lines of its Relations (2021).

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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the field.

Inhalt

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Neal Alexander and David Cooper

Part I: Critical methodologies

1. Reading literature, reading geography

   Marc Brosseau

2. Relational literary geographies

   Sheila Hones

3. Literary geographies and the limits of representation

   Hayden Lorimer

4. Literary assemblages

   Jon Anderson

5. Postcolonial literary geographies

   Madhu Krishnan and Penny Cartwright

6. Literature, environment, geography

   Jos Smith

7. Mapping literature

   Sara Luchetta

Part II: Keywords

8. Space

   Peter Merriman

9. Place

   Sten Pultz Moslund

10. Landscape

    John Wylie

11. Region

    Juha Ridanpää

12. Mobilities

    Lynne Pearce

13. Diaspora

    Françoise Král

Part III: Literary geography and literary history

14. Paths and parchment: Medieval literary geographies

    Marianne O'Doherty

15. Geographies of early modern English literatures and the place of the stage

    Julie Sanders

16. The eighteenth century: Sights, scales, travels

    Robert Mayhew

17. Romantic literary geographies

    Penny Bradshaw

18. The nineteenth century

    David McLaughlin

19. Literary geographies of modernism

    Neal Alexander

20. Contemporary literary geography

    Alexander Beaumont

Part IV: Places, spaces, and landforms

21. The city

    Monica Manolescu

22. Islands

    Uma Kothari and Joseph Palis

23. Rivers

    Sarah de Leeuw

24. The sea

    John Brannigan

25. Mountains

    Jonathan Westaway

26. Borderlands

    Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo

27. Utopias

    Jamie Harris

28. Outer Space

    James Kneale

Part V: Forms and genres

29. The novel: Performing Black geographies in African American fiction

    Herman Beavers

30. Geo graphien

    James Riding and Olivia Mason

31. Poetry

    Heather H. Yeung

32. Drama and performance

    Laurence Publicover

33. Comics

    Giada Peterle

Part VI: Beyond the academy

34. Murderscapes, deathscapes, and workscapes in Québec's Eastern Townships fiction and 'immersive literary geographies'

    Ceri Morgan

35. Experiential literary geography in the mind and in Minecraft

    Sally Bushell

36. Literary river-walking and the politics of place-making

    Emily Potter and Brigid Magner

37. Trees, texts, and place-based education: The pedagogic potential of literary geography

    David Cooper and Christopher Hanley

Afterword

38. Geography and the creative writer

    Tim Cresswell

Index