Literature, mapping, and the politics of space in early modern Britain

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List of illustrations Preface Notes on contributors Introduction Andrew Gordon and Bernhard Klein Part I. Contested Spaces: 1. Absorption and representation: mapping England in the early modern House of Commons Oliver Arnold 2. A map of Greater Cambria Philip Schwyzer 3. Britannia rules the waves?: images of Empire in Elizabethan England Lesley B. Cormack 4. Performing London: the map and the city in ceremony Andrew Gordon 5. Visible bodies: cartography and anatomy Caterina Albano Part II. Literature and Landscape: 6. The scene of cartography in King Lear John Gillies 7. Unlawful presences: the politics of military space and the problem of women in Tamburlaine Nina Taunton 8. Marginal waters: Pericles and the idea of jurisdiction Bradin Cormack 9. 'On the famous voyage': Ben Jonson and civic space Andrew McRae 10. Imaginary journeys: Spenser, Drayton, and the poetics of national space Bernhard Klein 11. Do real knights need maps? Charting moral, geographical and representational uncertainty in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Joanne Woolway Grenfell Epilogue: 12. The folly of maps and modernity Richard Helgerson Select bibliography.

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