Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 - Hardcover

Sarah Wylie Krotz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442650125 ISBN 13: 9781442650121

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2018

Synopsis

Mapping with Words re-conceptualizes settler writing as literary cartography. The topographical descriptions of early Canadian settler writers generated not only picturesque and sublime landscapes, but also verbal maps. These worked to orient readers, reinforcing and expanding the cartographic order of the emerging colonial dominion.

Drawing upon the work of critical and cultural geographers as well as literary theorists, Sarah Wylie Krotz opens up important aesthetic and political dimensions of both familiar and obscure texts from the nineteenth century, including Thomas Cary's Abram's Plains, George Monro Grant's Ocean to Ocean, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush. Highlighting the complex territoriality that emerges from their cartographic aesthetics, Krotz offers fresh readings of these texts, illuminating their role in an emerging spatial imaginary that was at once deeply invested in the production of colonial spaces and at the same time enmeshed in the realities of confronting Indigenous sovereignties.

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About the Author

Sarah Wylie Krotz is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442650125
• ISBN 13: 9781442650121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240