Overview

Our experience of the world is deeply shaped by concepts of space. From territorial borders, to distinctions between public and private space, to the way we dwell in a building or move between rooms, space is central to how we inhabit our environment and make sense of our place within it. Literature explores and gives expression to the ways in which space impacts human experience. It also powerfully shapes the construction and experience of space. Literary studies has increasingly turned to space and, fuelled by feminist and postcolonial insights, the interconnections between material spaces and power relations. This book treats foundational theories in spatial literary studies alongside exciting new areas of research, providing a dual emphasis on origins and innovative approaches while maintaining constant attention to how the production and experience of space is intertwined with the production and circulation of power.

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Author:   Elizabeth Evans (Wayne State University, Detroit)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009424240

ISBN 10:   1009424246
Pages:   391
Publication Date:   22 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: space and literary studies Elizabeth F. Evans; Part I. Origins Revisited: 1. Representation Andrew Thacker; 2. Mapping: cheap maps, spatial politics and England's colonies Kat Lecky; 3. Space, disciplinary power and the novel Philip Howell; 4. Public/private: the spatial form of love and labor in the English novel Nancy Armstrong and Matthew Taft; 5. Urban/Rural by Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee; Part II. Developments: 6. Gender, space and feminist geography Radost Rangelova; 7. Plantation: toward a literary history of race, space, and capital in the Anglo-world Jared Hickman and Aaron Begg; 8. Empire, nation and the question of space Sandeep Banerjee and Atreyee Majumder; 9. Postcolonial space: African literary writing and the articulations of worlding Madhu Krishnan; 10. Borders and the liminal Mary Pat Brady; 11. Encountering the community in third space Megan Jeanette Myers; 12. Literary mobilities and the mobilization of space Charlotte Mathieson; 13. Translocality and translocalism James Mulholland; 14. Psychogeography Joshua Armstrong; 15. Mapping empire's horror: literary gis and colonial spatial logic Alexander Sherman; Part III. Applications and Extensions: 16. Islands, oceans and the production of spatial theory Johannes Riquet; 17. Other/world(ly): a black ecology of outer space Stefanie K. Dunning; 18. Imaginary space Siobhan Carroll; 19. Digital Space Peta Mitchell; 20. Sensory geographies Sheila Hones; 21. Orientations Eve Sorum; Index.

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Elizabeth F. Evans works on modernism, literary and cultural geography, and the digital humanities. Her first book, Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines gender and space in writing by British and colonial authors.

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