Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination

Monika Szuba is Associate Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (2019) and co-edited with Julian Wolfreys The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (2019) and Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (2019).Julian Wolfreys, Independent Scholar, is the author of Dickens’s London: Perception, Subjectivity, and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity (2015), Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities (2010) and the editor of Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords (2003).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMonika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys1 The Poet, Voyager, and Cartographer Are ‘of Imagination All Compact’ Crossing the Borders of Early Modern Poetry and CartographyMałgorzata Grzegorzewska2 Fragmented Body versus Cartographic Representation The Early Modern Subject and the Marlovian TransgressorsKlaudia Łączyńska3 Marcus the Magnificent Closure and Resolution in Joël Dicker’s The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairTom Ue4 ‘To Deploy an Errant Eye’ Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Early Modern’ FantasiaJulian Wolfreys5 The Mapping of Empire in Hilary Davies’ “Imperium”Jean Ward6 Mapping and Unmapping the World Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky versus Unmapping Memory. Looking for Hildegard of Bingen by Desmond GrahamOlga Kubińska and Wojciech Kubiński7 Charting Milan in Central Asia Lombard Maps and Asian Toponymy in Luciano Erba’s PoetrySamuele Fioravanti8 A ‘Monolithic Map/ of We Know Not What’ Alec Finlay’s Chorographic PoeticsMonika Szuba9 Unseeable Maps The Experience of Space in the Blind Walk PerformanceIzabela Zawadzka10 Maps, Literature, and Law’s Idiocy Literary Tropes as Incentive, Ground and Veil for Taking the CommonsFrans-Willem Korsten11 Mapping the Sacramental Inner Circle by Jerzy PeterkiewiczAleksandra Słyszewska12 Camino (Hyper)Real California’s Cartographic ImaginationsGrzegorz WelizarowiczIndex