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Against the map : the politics of geography in eighteenth-century Britain
- Title
- Against the map : the politics of geography in eighteenth-century Britain / Adam Sills.
- Author
- Sills, Adam, 1969-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 302 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "This book investigates the complex and often conflicted relationship between heterogeneous modes of representing space in eighteenth-century Britain"--
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Geography in literature
- Cartography in literature
- Space in literature
- Neighborhoods in literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Cartography > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Cartography
- English literature
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Buffalo, 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- John Bunyan, Neighborhood, and the Geography of Dissent -- Aphra Behn and the Colonial Scene -- Surveying Ireland and Swift's "Country of the Mind" -- Daniel Defoe and the Limits to the Market -- This Old House and Samuel Johnson's Scotland -- Conclusion: The Neighborhood Revisited.
- Call Number
- JFF 21-907
- ISBN
- 9780813945989
- 0813945984
- 9780813945996
- 0813945992
- LCCN
- 2021010731
- OCLC
- 1245579215
- Author
- Sills, Adam, 1969- author.
- Title
- Against the map : the politics of geography in eighteenth-century Britain / Adam Sills.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Other Form:
- Online version: Sills, Adam, 1969- Against the map Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021. 9780813946009 (DLC) 2021010732
- Research Call Number
- JFF 21-907