Anderson J. Literary Atlas: Plotting a New Literary Geography

Routledge, 2024. — 235 p.This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales. It introduces an innovative "plotted" approach which empowers reading, creates connections to localities, histories, and communities, and inspires interest in literature and geography.
It showcases how literary geographies can be mobilized through the plotted approach to reading. Through documenting the Literary Atlas of Wales project, this book outlines how the plotted approach was used to engage with English-language novels set in Wales. It argues that the future of this interdisciplinary subject area should be premised upon nurturing instability, turbulence, and experimentation in order to produce new insights which can change the way we understand the relations not only between literature and place but also between other modern categories, including academic disciplines.
This book will be of interest to all readers of literature, human geography, mapping, heritage studies, and tourism. It will be beneficial to those interested in the domains of cartography, creative humanities, cultural sociology, human geography, literary studies, and print cultures.Plotting a new future for literary geographies
Literary geographies and interdisciplinarity
New literary geographies: a confluence of approaches and disciplines
New literary geographies: an emergent Literary Atlas
Locating the Literary Atlas: developing plot-points
Locating the Literary Atlas: deepening plot-points
Expanding the field: visualizing plots through cartographic art
Evaluating the plotted approach: authorial engagements
Evaluating the plotted approach: reading groups and reading plots
Engaging publics: the Literary Atlas online
Engaging publics: creative excursions into the borderlands
Engaging publics: evaluating the Literary Atlas exhibitions
Conclusion: “Touch life often”: the plotted approach to literary geographies
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