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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
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Moretti as mentioned in this paper explored the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel and found that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history, in a series of one hundred maps, alongside Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas.Abstract:
In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel. Balzac's Paris, Dickens's London and Scott's Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.read more
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Recognizing the Patterns
TL;DR: The authors argue that the question framing this symposium, "What Is Literature Now?" is itself always already an interrogation of the nature of globalization in our contemporary moment, by way of a detailed discussion of William Gibson's most recent novel, Pattern Recognition (2003).
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Japan and the Internationalization of the Serial Fiction Market
Graham Law,Norimasa Morita +1 more
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Austen’s Powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in Debates About Wealth and Virtue
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Annexing the unread: a close reading of “distant reading”
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Critical Literary Cartography: Text, Maps and a Coleridge Notebook
TL;DR: The Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds (ELMW) collection as discussed by the authors is a collection of 29 transdisciplinary essays which exemplify the recent resurgence of intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities.