Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in
France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a
number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the
convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of
early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the
unique language of allegorical cartography raises important
theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist
discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative
writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared
in the seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps,
atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars
and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the
ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues
that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential
capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power.
Illustrated.
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