Surveying the Interior : Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0874175739
ISBN-13
9780874175738
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Imprint
University of Nevada Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2003
Weight
344 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 21.60 x 2.40 cms
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In this work, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers - Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell and Wallace Stegner - concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it.
From a cartographer who wrote to a writer who mapped, the literary significance of surveying is revealed in this study of human relationships to the landscape. From the very beginning, American literature was closely intertwined with surveying. In Surveying the Interior, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers—Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell, and Wallace Stegner—concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it. In the process, he helps define the ways by which space enters the human psyche as definable place, as well as the ways by which physical landscape is transmuted into a sense of place as an intimate, personal manifestation of both physical and existential realities.
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