The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

by Robert T. Tally Jr. (Editor)

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.

392 pages, Hardcover

First published August 12, 2016

Reviews

[Šári · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the chapters brilliantly explained new (and for me very useful) concepts, referred clearly to a handful of other texts on the topic and I was sad they weren't longer because they read so well. Some flew right over my head, especially those leaning heavily on Phenomenology which I famously struggle with. Some I skipped because they treated topics I have no immediate interest in. I'll definitely be returning to this and re-reading the useful bits but first I need to read Tally's Spatiality and, frustratingly, some 50 other books, like Said's Orientalism, which I should have been introduced to and assigned to read as a graduate student.

[eryn💌]

Lots of big words