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Book SynopsisUses the methodologies of critical geography, as well as literary criticism and theory, to detail the conflicted and often adversarial relationship between cartographic and literary representations of the nation and its geography.
Trade ReviewSills persuasively argues that there is no coherent British national identity based on a coherent mapping of national space. Rather, national identity hinged on local places and neighborhoods through which the individual connected with the national. The nature of those neighborhoods was the subject of diverse discourses, promoted by the emergent public sphere and shaped through their interplay of textual and graphic maps. An original book grounded on wide-ranging but secure scholarship." - Matthew H. Edney, University of Southern Maine, author of
Cartography: The Ideal and Its History"This ambitious book gathers a stunning variety of maps and texts across the long eighteenth century to show how local spaces refashion themselves in relation to the nation as that nation behaves imperially towards its own." - Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia Press, author of
Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
