ABSTRACT How we read and interpret a map when it is presented alongside the text in a work of fiction is the central issue with which this paper is concerned. Although “literary maps” can be found across a range of genres in literary studies, they are often treated as illustrative rather than being understood as integral to the meaning of the literary work. This article seeks to challenge such assumptions. The first half of the article is interdisciplinary, engaging with the work of J.B. Harley, Mark Monmonier, Franco Moretti, Christina Ljungberg, and Andrew Thacker in order to open up responses to literary maps in more complex ways. It draws on critical cartography to define core concerns for an emerging literary cartography, such as the nature of the analogy between map and text; the complexity of correspondence when a map and text occur alongside each other and the author is also the map-maker; and the difficulties created by naive users of the literary map. The second half of the article grounds the p...
['Sally Bushell']
The Slipperiness of Literary Maps: Critical Cartography and Literary Cartography