An Errant Eye studies how topography, the art of describing local
space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern
France. Arguing for a "new poetics of space" ranging throughout
French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, Tom Conley
performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts, and poems to plot a
topographical shift in the late Renaissance in which space,
subjectivity, and politics fall into crisis. He charts the paradox
of a period whose demarcation of national space through cartography
is rendered unstable by an ambient world of printed writing. This
tension, Conley demonstrates, cuts through literature and graphic
matter of various shapes and forms-hybrid genres that include the
comic novel, the emblem-book, the eclogue, sonnets, and the
personal essay. An Errant Eye differs from historical treatments of
spatial invention through Conley's argument that the topographic
sensibility is one in which the ocular faculty, vital to the
description of locale, is endowed with tact and touch. Detailed
close readings of Apian, Rabelais, Montaigne, and others empower
the reader with a lively sense of the topographical impulse,
deriving from Conley's own "errant eye," which is singularly
discerning in attentiveness to the ambiguities of charted
territory, the contours of woodcut images, and the complex
combinations of word and figure in French Renaissance poetry,
emblem, and politics.
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