Mantle of the Earth

Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a point of tension." Featuring numerous illustrations, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor is an intellectual history of the term mantle and its metaphorical representation in art and literature, geography and cartography. Through the history of this metaphor from antiquity to the modern day, we learn about shifting perceptions and representations of global space and of the nature of geography itself.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-28
Mått152 x 229 x 32 mm
Vikt686 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226741291

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Introduction: On Mantles, Maps, and MetaphorsPart I: Clothing Creation1. Mythical Cloaks2. Biblical and Byzantine Garments3. Medieval VerniclesPart II: Unveiling Space4. Renaissance Stage Curtains5. Drapes, Lights, and Shadows6. Romantic VeilsPart III: The Surfaces of Modernity7. The Surfaces of Geography8. Pierced Surfaces and Parted Veils9. The Green MantlePart IV: Weaving Worlds10. Cartographic Embroideries11. The Digital SkinEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

"In its ambitious scope and humanistic approach, the book is an excellent example of the erudite scholarship that traces the emergence and mutability of an earthly imagination manifest in changing cartographic practices over time. . . . There is, for example, a brilliant exposé of how, in Renaissance Europe, the dissection of the mantle by mapmakers echoed the contemporaneous slicing open and pinning back of the tissues of the human body in anatomical science. . . . As an account of ideas and artifacts The Mantle of the Earth provides a sweeping backdrop to current-day scientific technologies and practices."