The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the field. Written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, the 38 chapters are organised into six themed sections, which consider: differing critical methodologies; keywords and concepts; literary geography in the light of literary history; a variety of places, spaces, and landforms; the significance of literary forms and genres; and the role of literary geographies beyond the academy. Presenting the work of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, each section offers readers new angles from which to view the convergence of literary creativity and geographical thought. Collectively, the contributors also address some of the major issues of our time including the climate emergency, movement and migration, and the politics of place. Literary geography is a dynamic interdisciplinary field dedicated to exploring the complex relationships between geography and literature. This cutting-edge collection will be an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in both Geography and Literary Studies, and scholars interested in the evolving interface between the two disciplines. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Critical Methodologies 1 Reading Literature, Reading Geography 2 Relational Literary Geographies 3 Literary Geographies and the Limits of Representation 4 Literary Assemblages 5 Postcolonial Literary Geographies 6 Literature, Environment, Geography 7 Mapping Literature Part II: Keywords 8 Space 9 Place 10 Landscape 11 Region 12 Mobilities 13 Diaspora Part III: Literary Geography and Literary History 14 Paths and Parchment: Medieval Literary Geographies 15 Geographies of early Modern English Literatures and the Place of the Stage 16 The Eighteenth Century: Sites, Scales, Travels 17 Romantic Literary Geographies 18 The Nineteenth Century 19 Literary Geographies of Modernism 20 Contemporary Literary Geography Part IV: Places, Spaces, and Landforms 21 The City 22 Islands 23 Rivers 24 The Sea 25 Mountains 26 Borderlands 27 Utopias 28 Outer Space Part V: Forms and Genres 29 The Novel: Performing Black Geographies in African American Fiction 30 Geo Graphein: Reimagining Literary Geography 31 Poetry 32 Drama and Performance 33 Comics Part VI: Beyond the Academy 34 Murderscapes, Deathscapes, and Workscapes in Québec’s Eastern Townships Fiction and ‘Immersive Literary Geographies’ 35 Experiential Literary Geography in the mind and in Minecraft 36 Literary River Walking and the Politics of Place-making: A Regional Australian case Study 37 Trees, Texts, and Place-based Education: The Pedagogic Potential of Literary Geography Afterword Afterword: Geography and the Creative Writer Index The Routledge Handbook to Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the field. Written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, the 38 chapters are organised into six themed sections, which differing critical methodologies; keywords and concepts; literary geography in the light of literary history; a variety of places, spaces, and landforms; the significance of literary forms and genres; and the role of literary geographies beyond the academy. Presenting the work of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, each section offers readers new angles from which to view the convergence of literary creativity and geographical thought. Collectively, the contributors also address some of the major issues of our time including the climate emergency, movement and migration, and the politics of place. Literary geography is a dynamic interdisciplinary field dedicated to exploring the complex relationships between geography and literature. This cutting-edge collection will be an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in both Geography and Literary Studies, and scholars interested in the evolving interface between the two disciplines.