Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tampere. His research focuses on spatiality, the multiple relations between literature and geography, travel writing, phenomenology, and film studies. He has published on island narratives, railway literature and cinema, the poetics of snow and ice, and Shakespeare. Elizabeth Kollmann studied in Port Elizabeth and Zurich and completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Zurich in 2014. Her research interests include life writing, exile, postcolonialism and South African literature. She is a Lecturer in English at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsFraming the Debate: Spatial Modernities, Travelling Narratives JOHANNES RIQUETPART IMapping Modernity 1 In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia and Literary CartographyROBERT T. TALLY JR. 2 Mapping UtopiaCHRISTINA LJUNGBERG 3 Of the Novelty of Bird’s-Eye Views in Eighteenth-Century Travelling NarrativesJEAN-PAUL FORSTER4 Satellite Vision and Geographical ImaginationDAVID SHIMPART IIIsland Spaces5 Crossing the Sand: The Arrival on the Desert IslandBARNEY SAMSON6 Two Centuries of Spatial ‘Island’ Assumptions: The Swiss Family Robinson and the Robinson Crusoe LegacyBRITTA HARTMANN7 Island Stills and Island Movements: Un/freezing the Island in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood CinemaJOHANNES RIQUETPART IIIShorelines/Borderlines8 Words and Images of Flight: Representations of the Seashore in the Texts about the Overseas Flight of Estonians during the Autumn of 1944MAARJA OJAMAA9 The Literary Channel: Identity and Liminal Space in Island FictionsINA HABERMANNPART IVModernity on the Move10 Montaigne: Travel and TravailTOM CONLEY11 The Expanding Space of the Train Carriage: A phenomenological reading of Michel Butor’s La modificationCAROLINE RABOURDINPART VLate Modernity and the Spatialized Self12 The Reader, the Writer, the Text: Traversing Spaces in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s AshesELIZABETH KOLLMANN13 Narrative, Space and Autobiographical Film in the Digital Age: An Analysis of The Beaches of Agnès (2008)DEIRDRE RUSSELLNotes on ContributorsIndex

Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tampere. His research focuses on spatiality, the multiple relations between literature and geography, travel writing, phenomenology, and film studies. He has published on island narratives, railway literature and cinema, the poetics of snow and ice, and Shakespeare. Elizabeth Kollmann studied in Port Elizabeth and Zurich and completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Zurich in 2014. Her research interests include life writing, exile, postcolonialism and South African literature. She is a Lecturer in English at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsFraming the Debate: Spatial Modernities, Travelling Narratives JOHANNES RIQUETPART IMapping Modernity 1 In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia and Literary CartographyROBERT T. TALLY JR. 2 Mapping UtopiaCHRISTINA LJUNGBERG 3 Of the Novelty of Bird’s-Eye Views in Eighteenth-Century Travelling NarrativesJEAN-PAUL FORSTER4 Satellite Vision and Geographical ImaginationDAVID SHIMPART IIIsland Spaces5 Crossing the Sand: The Arrival on the Desert IslandBARNEY SAMSON6 Two Centuries of Spatial ‘Island’ Assumptions: The Swiss Family Robinson and the Robinson Crusoe LegacyBRITTA HARTMANN7 Island Stills and Island Movements: Un/freezing the Island in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood CinemaJOHANNES RIQUETPART IIIShorelines/Borderlines8 Words and Images of Flight: Representations of the Seashore in the Texts about the Overseas Flight of Estonians during the Autumn of 1944MAARJA OJAMAA9 The Literary Channel: Identity and Liminal Space in Island FictionsINA HABERMANNPART IVModernity on the Move10 Montaigne: Travel and TravailTOM CONLEY11 The Expanding Space of the Train Carriage: A phenomenological reading of Michel Butor’s La modificationCAROLINE RABOURDINPART VLate Modernity and the Spatialized Self12 The Reader, the Writer, the Text: Traversing Spaces in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s AshesELIZABETH KOLLMANN13 Narrative, Space and Autobiographical Film in the Digital Age: An Analysis of The Beaches of Agnès (2008)DEIRDRE RUSSELLNotes on ContributorsIndex

Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tampere. His research focuses on spatiality, the multiple relations between literature and geography, travel writing, phenomenology, and film studies. He has published on island narratives, railway literature and cinema, the poetics of snow and ice, and Shakespeare. Elizabeth Kollmann studied in Port Elizabeth and Zurich and completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Zurich in 2014. Her research interests include life writing, exile, postcolonialism and South African literature. She is a Lecturer in English at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsFraming the Debate: Spatial Modernities, Travelling Narratives JOHANNES RIQUETPART IMapping Modernity 1 In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia and Literary CartographyROBERT T. TALLY JR. 2 Mapping UtopiaCHRISTINA LJUNGBERG 3 Of the Novelty of Bird’s-Eye Views in Eighteenth-Century Travelling NarrativesJEAN-PAUL FORSTER4 Satellite Vision and Geographical ImaginationDAVID SHIMPART IIIsland Spaces5 Crossing the Sand: The Arrival on the Desert IslandBARNEY SAMSON6 Two Centuries of Spatial ‘Island’ Assumptions: The Swiss Family Robinson and the Robinson Crusoe LegacyBRITTA HARTMANN7 Island Stills and Island Movements: Un/freezing the Island in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood CinemaJOHANNES RIQUETPART IIIShorelines/Borderlines8 Words and Images of Flight: Representations of the Seashore in the Texts about the Overseas Flight of Estonians during the Autumn of 1944MAARJA OJAMAA9 The Literary Channel: Identity and Liminal Space in Island FictionsINA HABERMANNPART IVModernity on the Move10 Montaigne: Travel and TravailTOM CONLEY11 The Expanding Space of the Train Carriage: A phenomenological reading of Michel Butor’s La modificationCAROLINE RABOURDINPART VLate Modernity and the Spatialized Self12 The Reader, the Writer, the Text: Traversing Spaces in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s AshesELIZABETH KOLLMANN13 Narrative, Space and Autobiographical Film in the Digital Age: An Analysis of The Beaches of Agnès (2008)DEIRDRE RUSSELLNotes on ContributorsIndex