Literary Geography
An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings
Published on 2. August 2019
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-1-4408-4254-2 (ISBN)
Description
This reference investigates the role of landscape in popular works and in doing so explores the time in which they were written.
Literary Geography: An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings is an authoritative guide for students, teachers, and avid readers who seek to understand the importance of setting in interpreting works of literature, including poetry. By examining how authors and poets shaped their literary landscapes in such works as The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four, readers will discover historical, political, and cultural context hidden within the words of their favorite reads.
The alphabetically arranged entries provide easy access to analysis of some of the most well-known and frequently assigned pieces of literature and poetry. Entries begin with a brief introduction to the featured piece of literature and then answer the questions: "How is literary landscape used to shape the story?"; "How is the literary landscape imbued with the geographical, political, cultural, and historical context of the author's contemporary world, whether purposeful or not?"
Pop-up boxes provide quotes about literary landscapes throughout the book, and an appendix takes a brief look at the places writers congregated and that inspired them. A comprehensive scholarly bibliography of secondary sources pertaining to mapping, physical and cultural geography, ecocriticism, and the role of nature in literature rounds out the work.
Literary Geography: An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings is an authoritative guide for students, teachers, and avid readers who seek to understand the importance of setting in interpreting works of literature, including poetry. By examining how authors and poets shaped their literary landscapes in such works as The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four, readers will discover historical, political, and cultural context hidden within the words of their favorite reads.
The alphabetically arranged entries provide easy access to analysis of some of the most well-known and frequently assigned pieces of literature and poetry. Entries begin with a brief introduction to the featured piece of literature and then answer the questions: "How is literary landscape used to shape the story?"; "How is the literary landscape imbued with the geographical, political, cultural, and historical context of the author's contemporary world, whether purposeful or not?"
Pop-up boxes provide quotes about literary landscapes throughout the book, and an appendix takes a brief look at the places writers congregated and that inspired them. A comprehensive scholarly bibliography of secondary sources pertaining to mapping, physical and cultural geography, ecocriticism, and the role of nature in literature rounds out the work.
Reviews / Votes
High school and college students will find excellent examples of how to study the geographical components of literature, while book clubs will discover fresh approaches to old and new classics. * Library Journal * Meticulously compiled, this is a thought-provoking literary aid. * Kirkus Reviews * The encyclopedia is geared toward high school students and general readers, but it might also be useful to first-year undergraduates in introductory literature courses. * Choice * From Slaughterhouse-Five to Macbeth and from the Lord of the Flies to Gulliver's Travels, the author expertly delivers nuggets of wisdom in a manner that might prove fruitful and valuable to both the layperson and to the academic alike. * U.S. Review of Books *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
29 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
959 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-4254-2 (9781440842542)
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08/2019
1st Edition
Greenwood Press
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Person
Lynn Marie Houston, PhD, has spent nearly two decades teaching college English courses, from developmental classes to graduate seminars. She is also a senior tutor and instructional support specialist at the Sacred Heart University.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Place in Poetry
Place in Prose
A-Z Entries
Absalom, Absalom!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Pretty Horses
Almanac of the Dead
Antigone
Anzaldua, Gloria
Arthurian Tales
As I Lay Dying
Awakening, The
Beloved
Berry, Wendell
Billy Budd
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bless Me, Ultima
Book Thief, The
Brave New World
Brideshead Revisited
Call of the Wild, The
Catcher in the Rye, The
Ceremony
Crime and Punishment
Crucible, The
Daisy Miller
Death of a Salesman
Dickinson, Emily
Dispatches
Dracula
Ender's Game
Enemy of the People, An
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
"Fall of the House of Usher, The"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Frankenstein
Frost, Robert
Glass Menagerie, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby, The
Gulliver's Travels
Hamlet
Handmaid's Tale, The
Harry Potter Series, The
Hass, Robert
Heaney, Seamus
Heart of Darkness
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
House on Mango Street, The
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Richard
Hunger Games, The
Irving, Washington
Jane Eyre
Jungle, The
King Lear
Kite Runner, The
Last of the Mohicans, The
Long Day's Journey into Night
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
Macbeth
"Metamorphosis, The"
Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Moby Dick
My Antonia
Nineteen Eighty-Four
No Country for Old Men
Odyssey, The
Oedipus Rex
Of Mice and Men
Old Man and the Sea, The
Oliver, Mary
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Plague, The
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poisonwood Bible, The
Pride and Prejudice
Raisin in the Sun, A
Red Badge of Courage, The
Robinson Crusoe
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlet Letter, The
Slaughterhouse-Five
Snyder, Gary
Sound and the Fury, The
Stevens, Wallace
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Sula
Sun Also Rises, The
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things They Carried, The
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Waiting for Godot
Walcott, Derek
Whitman, Walt
Williams, William Carlos
Wizard of Oz, The
Wordsworth, William
Wuthering Heights
"Yellow Wallpaper, The"
Appendix: Literary Landscapes and Capital Cities
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
Introduction
Place in Poetry
Place in Prose
A-Z Entries
Absalom, Absalom!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Pretty Horses
Almanac of the Dead
Antigone
Anzaldua, Gloria
Arthurian Tales
As I Lay Dying
Awakening, The
Beloved
Berry, Wendell
Billy Budd
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bless Me, Ultima
Book Thief, The
Brave New World
Brideshead Revisited
Call of the Wild, The
Catcher in the Rye, The
Ceremony
Crime and Punishment
Crucible, The
Daisy Miller
Death of a Salesman
Dickinson, Emily
Dispatches
Dracula
Ender's Game
Enemy of the People, An
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
"Fall of the House of Usher, The"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Frankenstein
Frost, Robert
Glass Menagerie, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby, The
Gulliver's Travels
Hamlet
Handmaid's Tale, The
Harry Potter Series, The
Hass, Robert
Heaney, Seamus
Heart of Darkness
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
House on Mango Street, The
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Richard
Hunger Games, The
Irving, Washington
Jane Eyre
Jungle, The
King Lear
Kite Runner, The
Last of the Mohicans, The
Long Day's Journey into Night
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
Macbeth
"Metamorphosis, The"
Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Moby Dick
My Antonia
Nineteen Eighty-Four
No Country for Old Men
Odyssey, The
Oedipus Rex
Of Mice and Men
Old Man and the Sea, The
Oliver, Mary
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Plague, The
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poisonwood Bible, The
Pride and Prejudice
Raisin in the Sun, A
Red Badge of Courage, The
Robinson Crusoe
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlet Letter, The
Slaughterhouse-Five
Snyder, Gary
Sound and the Fury, The
Stevens, Wallace
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Sula
Sun Also Rises, The
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things They Carried, The
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Waiting for Godot
Walcott, Derek
Whitman, Walt
Williams, William Carlos
Wizard of Oz, The
Wordsworth, William
Wuthering Heights
"Yellow Wallpaper, The"
Appendix: Literary Landscapes and Capital Cities
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index