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Author:   Patrick Murray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781032060255

ISBN 10:   1032060255
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   05 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Weaving the Net / Chapter 1: ‘they say the world’s in one of them’: The World of the Map / Chapter 2: ‘Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize’: Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton / Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland / Chapter 4: ‘There is none so good lernynge’: Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises / Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science / Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies / Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar’s Cartographies / Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future

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‘Patrick J. Murray’s new book is an important contribution to the literature pertaining to critical cartography and literary geography in early modern England. Brought out in the Routledge series, Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge, this volume explores the emerging geographic consciousness in early modern English intellectual culture with erudition’ - IMAGO MUNDI vol. 75/2 (2023).

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Patrick J. Murray, PhD, is a researcher specialising in early modern literature. His primary research and teaching interests focus on the interdisciplinary interfaces of cartography, literary representation and cultural fashioning in the period 1550-1750.

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