Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the reassertion of space in literary studies -- PART I Spatial theory and practice -- 1 In, of, out, with, and through: new perspectives in literary geography -- 2 Critical literary geography -- 3 Senses of place -- 4 Inventions of space: Deleuze between concept and event -- 5 Phenomenology, place, and the spatial turn -- 6 Spatializing practices at the intersections: representations and productions of spaces -- PART II Critical methodologies -- 7 Literary geography and the digital: the emergence of neogeography -- 8 Reading as mapping -- 9 Sound and rhythm in literary space-time -- 10 Elizabeth Bishop in and out of Place: a topopoetic approach -- 11 Literature across scales -- 12 Digital literary cartographies: mapping British Romanticism -- 13 Literature and land surveying -- PART III Work sites -- 14 Atopia/non-place -- 15 Heterotopias: the possible and real in Foucault, Beckett, and Calvino -- 16 Dreams, memories, longings: the dimension of projected places in fiction -- 17 Imaginative regions -- 18 Neighbourhoods: thick description in the city -- 19 Islands: literary geographies of possession, separation, and transformation -- 20 Island spatialities -- PART IV Cities and the geography of urban experience -- 21 The city novel: measuring referential, spatial, linguistic, and temporal distances -- 22 From the city of London to the desert island: Defoe and the writing of space and place -- 23 The speculative fictional mapping of literary Johannesburg's spaces in Beukes's Zoo City and Grey's The Mall -- 24 Spaces of Difference in Subterranean Toronto -- 25 On this spot: materialism, memory, and the politics of absence in Greenwich Village -- 26 The following is an account of what happened: plot, space, and the art of shadowing PART V Maps, territories, readings -- 27 From the spatial turn to the spacetime-vitalist turn: Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker and Owuor's Dust -- 28 Environmental determinism and American literature: historicizing geography and form -- 29 Mapping without maps: memory and cartography in Las Casas's Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies -- 30 Joycean chronotopography: Homer, Dante, Ulysses -- 31 Intellectual cartographies of the Cold War: Latin American visitors to the People's Republic of China, 1952-1958 -- 32 Feminist geocritical activism: Natalie Barney's writing of women's spaces into women's places -- Index
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