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Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space, place, and landscape for 'mainstream' and 'experimental' poets, post-romantics and neo-modernists alike. Cumulatively, the book's varied articulations of poetry and geography sketch out a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, sound and space. Poetry's unique capacity to invigorate and expand our vocabularies of site and situation, of our manifold relations with the world outside us, is described and explored. Bringing together fresh, interdisciplinary readings of poets as diverse as Roy Fisher and R.S. Thomas, John Burnside and Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott and Peter Riley, Alice Oswald and Ciaran Carson, Poetry & Geography sketches a topographical map of shared poetic terrains. It contributes to a fertile set of dialogues between literary studies and cultural geography in which the valences of space and place are open to processes of contestation and reimagining. This new collection of critical essays provides readers with a vital set of coordinates in a complex and evolving field. Key themes include: place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form.

English poetry --- Geography in literature. --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism.

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American literature --- History and criticism --- Geography in literature --- Australasia --- In literature --- #KVHA:American Studies --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Verenigde Staten --- Topography in literature

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Geography in literature --- German literature --- German literature --- German literature --- Jews --- Judaism and literature --- Geography in literature. --- German literature. --- German literature --- Jews --- Judaism and literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Jewish authors. --- Intellectual life. --- 1800-1999. --- Germany.

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In this text, the author highlights unrecorded discoveries about how maps and literature are associated. Not only do maps give us a tool by which to understand a physical reality as it actually exists, but maps can support the realm of literary fiction - such as Tolkien's Middle Earth, or Stevenson's Treasure Island. There are also maps that try to catch a certain historical moment like an urban space at a particular time period, or a rural environment. While maps had historically guided travel, in literature they provide an escape mechanism that transports the audience to an unfamiliar place.

Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Modernism (Literature). --- English literature --- Geography in literature --- Maps in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism

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In demonstrating the global reach of Gothic literatures, this collection takes up the influence of the Gothic mode in literatures that may be geographically remote from one another but still share related issues of minor languages, nation building, place and race. Suggesting that there is a parallel between certain motifs and themes found in the Gothic of the North (Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Canada) and South (Australia, South Africa and the US South), the essays explore the transgressions and confusion of borders and limits, whether they be linguistic, literary, generic, class-based, gendered or sexual. The volume includes essays on a wide diversity of authors and topics: Jan Potocki, Gustav Meyrink, William Godwin, Alan Hollinghurst, Marlene van Niekerk, John Richardson, antislavery discourse and the Gothic imagination, the Australian aboriginal Gothic, vampires of Post-Soviet Gothic society, Danish, Swedish and Finnish fiction and film, and the Canadian female Gothic and the death drive. What distinguishes this book from other collections on the Gothic is the coverage of themes and literatures that are either lacking in the mainstream research on the Gothic or are referred to only briefly in other book-length studies. Experts in the Gothic and those new to the field will appreciate the book's commitment to situating Gothic sensibilities in an international context.

literature [humanities] --- geography --- Social geography --- Gothic Revival --- Literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Geography in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- Roman gothique --- Géographie --- Caractère national --- Littérature d'épouvante --- Dans la littérature --- Gothic revival (Literature). --- Dans la littérature. --- literature [discipline] --- Roman gothique. --- Littérature d'épouvante. --- literary studies --- Géographie --- Caractère national --- Littérature d'épouvante. --- Dans la littérature.