Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety

by Chris Barrett

The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household decor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the socioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. Early Modern English Literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198816871
• ISBN13: 9780198816874
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"