The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "spatial turn" in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes thirty-two essays on topics such as: Spatial theory and practice Critical methodologies Work sites Cities and the geography of urban experience Maps, territories, readings. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how a variety of romantic, realist, modernist, and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world, and of our own world system today.