Use of imaginary, historical, and actual maps in literature : how British and Irish authors created imaginary worlds to tell their stories (Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien, etc.) / John Wyatt ; with a forword by Paul Foster.

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In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkien's Middle Earth, or Stevenson's Treasure Island. There are also maps that try to catch a certain historical moment like an urban space at a particular time period, or a rural environment. While maps had historically guided travel, in literature they provide an escape mechanism that transports the audience to an unfamiliar place.

THE USE OF IMAGINARY, HISTORICAL, AND ACTUAL MAPS IN LITERATURE: How British and Irish Authors Created Imaginary Worlds to Tell Their Stories (Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien, ect.); Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One -- Maps of Discovery: Bringing Home Distant Lands; List of Maps; Chapter One -- Stories of Discovering the World; Chapter Two -- Mapping Fictions of Discovery; Chapter Three -- Making Maps for the Literary Traveller; Chapter Four -- Quest Maps and Stories of the Unknown: Light and Darkness

Part Two -- Maps Specially Made for Literary ContextsChapter Five -- Emery Walker: The Arts and Craft Map Maker; Chapter Six -- Authors as Map Makers Stevenson, Belloc, Kipling, Ransome, Tolkien; Chapter Seven -- Posthumous Mapping; Chapter Eight -- Map Makers as Literary Protagonists; Part Three -- Coordinates of Meaning: As Places Change, So Do Maps, Others Adapt; Chapter Nine -- Mapping the Identity of Ireland; Chapter Ten -- Mapping Literary Urban Space; Chapter Eleven -- Reading Into the Map: Cartographic Poetics; Chapter Twelve -- Conclusion: New Directions to be Constructed

A Guide for Further ReadingMaps; Index

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