Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing - Rilegato

Peters, Jeffrey N.

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ISBN 10: 0874138477 ISBN 13: 9780874138474

Casa editrice: Univ of Delaware Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Delaware Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0874138477
• ISBN 13: 9780874138474
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 286