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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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“Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature
TL;DR: The authors examine the resistance in literary criticism to making maps and discuss the relationship between the map and the physical world, highlighting the impossibility of realist fiction being real just as the map is not the territory.
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The plans of the town of Tobolsk in the second half of the eighteenth century as a historical resource
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to identify and analyze the handwritten plans of Tobolsk created in the second half of the XVIII century, and they set the task to identify the city plans created during the specified period and analyze them as a historical source.
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Geographic Question Answering: Challenges, Uniqueness, Classification, and Future Directions
TL;DR: GeoQA as mentioned in this paper investigates the reasons why geographic questions are difficult to answer by analyzing challenges of geographic questions and provides a generic classification framework for geographic questions based on this survey.
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The transatlantic novel in the nineteenth century
TL;DR: Dickens in Camp as discussed by the authors is an elegy to the dead author which recalls or imagines (probably a bit of both) a group of tough gold miners at the California diggings in the mid nineteenth century, spellbound by a reading of Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop.