ABSTRACT
This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early twenty-first century, we are still grappling with the spatial effects of ‘early’ and ‘high’ modern developments, and the contemporary crises revolving around political boundaries and geopolitical orders in many parts of the world have intensified spatial anxieties. They call for a sustained analysis of individual perceptions, cultural constructions and political implications of spatial processes, movements and relations.
The contributors of this book focus both on the spatial orders of modernity and on the various dynamic processes that have shaped our engagement with modern space.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Mapping Modernity
part II|52 pages
Island Spaces
chapter 6|16 pages
Two Centuries of Spatial ‘Island’ Assumptions
chapter 7|18 pages
Island Stills and Island Movements
part III|24 pages
Shorelines/Borderlines
chapter 8|11 pages
Words and Images of Flight
part IV|32 pages
Modernity on the Move
chapter 11|17 pages
The Expanding Space of the Train Carriage
part V|31 pages
Late Modernity and the Spatialized Self