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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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"Ud maate jeg": Andersen's Fodreise as Transgressive Space
TL;DR: Fodreise as discussed by the authors is the first novel by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, which describes a walking tour from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager in the years 1828 to 1829.
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Japan in the Mind's Eye of Two Mexican Travelers (1874, 1900)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the geographic spaces that gave meaning to the journeys of two Mexican travelers who traveled to Asia to observe the passage of the planet Venus over the disk of the sun, a cyclical event whose usefulness for measuring interplanetary distances had been argued by Edmond Halley in the eighteenth century.
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Novel, Utopia, Nation: A History of Interdependence
TL;DR: The authors reject the assumption that the novel and narrative utopia are two parallel, antinomic institutions that converge only abstractly, only as contemporaneous elements of that vast territory we call modernity, and try to write a history of their interdependence.
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Pre-Modern Joking Relationships in Early Modern Europe: From Le Neveu de Rameau to Le Neveu de Lacan
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