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Pocket maps and public poetry in the English Renaissance
- Title
- Pocket maps and public poetry in the English Renaissance / Katarzyna Lecky.
- Author
- Lecky, Katarzyna
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- x, 277 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.
- Series Statement
- Early modern literary geographies
- Uniform Title
- Early modern literary geographies.
- Subject
- 1500-1699
- English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Cartography > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Cartography > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Chapbooks, English > History > 16th century
- Chapbooks, English > History > 17th century
- Maps in literature
- Cartography in literature
- Cartography
- Chapbooks, English
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Common Space: Poetry and Cartography, 1590-1649 -- Spenser's Miniature Map of Faerie -- Daniel's Imperial Survey -- Jonson's Broken Compasses and Bit Parts -- Davenant's Numerical Nationhood -- Milton's Map of Liberty -- Epilogue: Argus Eyes
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5467
- ISBN
- 0198834691
- 9780198834694
- LCCN
- 2018961448
- OCLC
- 1065740154
- Author
- Lecky, Katarzyna, author.
- Title
- Pocket maps and public poetry in the English Renaissance / Katarzyna Lecky.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Early modern literary geographiesEarly modern literary geographies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5467