Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 08 May 2024

This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers. The volume shows how late 16th and 17th century

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 02 March 2018

The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household décor within a single

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 05 August 2022

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus’s arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific

• Publisher : Elsevier
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• Release Date : 29 November 2019

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 11 April 2019

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel

• Publisher : Penn State Press
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• Release Date : 06 January 2023

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. Designed

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
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• Release Date : 15 April 2022

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 25 November 2020

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English literature of the seventeenth century. The chapters in the collection

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 11 April 2019

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 33,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 January 2024

Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and