ABSTRACT

Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the field, but also informs a new generation of digital humanities scholars about the critical and creative potentials of digital literary mapping. The book showcases the work of exemplary literary mapping projects and provides the reader with an overview of the tools, techniques and methods those projects employ.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

Rethinking Literary Mapping

part I|100 pages

Mapping Methods

chapter 3|21 pages

Geographical Text Analysis

Digital Cartographies of Lake District Literature

chapter 4|14 pages

Mapping Fiction

The Theories, Tools and Potentials of Literary Cartography

chapter 5|21 pages

Bloomsday's Big Data

GIS, Social Media and James Joyce's Ulysses

part II|82 pages

Mapping Practices

chapter 6|22 pages

Mapping Fiction

Spatialising the Literary Work

chapter 7|14 pages

The Spatial Practices of Writing

Arnold Bennett and the Possibilities of Literary GIS

chapter 8|21 pages

Between ‘Distant' and ‘Deep' Digital Mapping

Walking the Plotlines of Cardiff's Literary Geographies

chapter 9|23 pages

The Cestrian Book of the Dead

A Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary

part III|92 pages

Mapping Futures

chapter 10|14 pages

Making the Invisible Visible

Place, Spatial Stories and Deep Maps

chapter 11|19 pages

From Mapping Text in Space to Experiencing Text in Place

Exploring Literary Virtual Geographies

chapter 13|18 pages

Geovisuality

Literary Implications

chapter 14|21 pages

‘Setting the globe to spin'

Digital Mapping and Contemporary Literary Culture