Overview

This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales. It introduces an innovative ""plotted"" approach which empowers reading, creates connections to localities, histories, and communities, and inspires interest in literature and geography. It showcases how literary geographies can be mobilized through the plotted approach to reading. Through documenting the Literary Atlas of Wales project, this book outlines how the plotted approach was used to engage with English-language novels set in Wales. It argues that the future of this interdisciplinary subject area should be premised upon nurturing instability, turbulence, and experimentation in order to produce new insights which can change the way we understand the relations not only between literature and place but also between other modern categories, including academic disciplines. This book will be of interest to all readers of literature, human geography, mapping, heritage studies, and tourism. It will be beneficial to those interested in the domains of cartography, creative humanities, cultural sociology, human geography, literary studies, and print cultures.

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Author:   Jon Anderson (University of Cardiff, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781032342634

ISBN 10:   1032342633
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   26 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Plotting a new future for literary geographies. Chapter 2. Literary geographies and interdisciplinarity. Chapter 3. New literary geographies: a confluence of approaches and disciplines. Chapter 4. New Literary Geographies: an emergent Literary Atlas. Chapter 5. Locating the Literary Atlas: Developing plot-points. Chapter 6. Locating the Literary Atlas: Deepening plot-points. Chapter 7. Expanding the field: visualising plots through cartographic art. Chapter 8. Evaluating the plotted approach: authorial engagements. Chapter 9 Evaluating the plotted approach: reading groups and reading plots. Chapter 10. Engaging publics: the Literary Atlas online. Chapter 11 Engaging publics: Creative Excursions into the Borderlands. Chapter 12. Engaging publics: Evaluating the Literary Atlas Exhibitions. Chapter 13. Conclusion

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Jon Anderson is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK. His research interests focus on the relations between identity, culture, and place, in particular the actions, practices, and politics that such relations produce. His recent publications include a monograph titled Surfing Spaces (2023) and the third edition of Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces (2021).

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