Novels, Maps, Modernity The Spatial Imagination, 1850&82112000 [Paperback]

Novels, Maps, Modernityis a remarkable book that promises to transform our knowledge of the representation of space in modern fiction. - Brian Richardson, University of Maryland

Bulsons informative book maps out the territory and points the way to further research and discovery. - Ian Pindar, Times Literary Supplement

Novels, Maps, Modernityargues that cartographic devicesincluding maps, sea charts, and aerial photographshave radically shaped how novelistic space has been imagined and represented from the midnineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. More than an antidote to disorientation, Eric Bulson demonstrates that they conceal a more complex story about capitalism, urbanization, empire, and world war.

Guiding readers through the cartographic encounters of Melville, Joyce, Pynchon and the long tradition of literary mapping, Bulson provides an original and thoughtful argument about space and the modern novel.

In this volume, Bulson examines:

the development of novelistic space from realism to postmodernism

the reality effect of mapping and signposting within novels

the juxtaposition of map and text

the rise of literary maps and guidebooks.

List of Figures.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Orienting, Disorienting the Novel  1. On Getting Oriented  2. Melvilles Zig-Zag World-Circle  3. Joyces Geodesy  4. Pynchons Baedeker Trick  5. On Getting Lost  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

Bulson has written a volume&that provides lucid and imaginative observations on the novelistic representation of place from the mid-nineteenth century works of Charles Dickens and Herman Melville to late twentieth-century fictlÓÎ