Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the
increasing accuracy and legibility of cartographic projections, the
proliferation of empirically based chorographies, and the popular
vogue for travel narratives served to order, package, and commodify
space in a manner that was critical to the formation of a unified
Britain. In tandem with such developments, however, a trenchant
anti-cartographic skepticism also emerged. This critique of the map
can be seen in many literary works of the period that satirize the
efficacy and value of maps and highlight their ideological
purposes. Against the Map argues that our understanding of the
production of national space during this time must also account for
these sites of resistance and opposition to hegemonic forms of
geographical representation, such as the map. This study utilizes
the methodologies of critical geography, as well as literary
criticism and theory, to detail the conflicted and often
adversarial relationship between cartographic and literary
representations of the nation and its geography. While examining
atlases, almanacs, itineraries, and other materials, Adam Sills
focuses particularly on the construction of heterotopias in the
works of John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe,
Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen. These "other" spaces, such as
neighborhood, home, and country, are not reducible to the map but
have played an equally important role in the shaping of British
national identity. Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation
is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important,
against it.
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