ABSTRACT
Landscape representation in particular has received close attention, with studies of maps, paintings, novels and diaries each providing a particular 'reading' of a landscape or landscapes. This chapter examines 'mapping and subjectivity' by considering recent criticism of cartography and the broadening scope of 'mapping' beyond its traditional format and practice. It aims to develop the use of drawing maps as an interpretative technique in cultural geography, as well as to consider the importance of studying the form, or morphology of landscape. Maps and mapping have continued to occupy the attention of cultural geographers over the last decade but in quite different ways compared to their predecessors. Landscape representation in particular has received close attention, with studies of maps, paintings, novels and diaries each providing a particular 'reading' of a landscape or landscapes. Although the use of form to interpret landscape has been accepted by cultural geographers for most of the twentieth century, latterly it has been increasingly sidelined.
