Mapping with words : anglo-canadian literary cartographies, 1789-1916 / Sarah Wylie Krotz.

Mapping with Words re-conceptualizes settler writing as literary cartography. The topographical descriptions of early Canadian settler writers generated not only picturesque and sublime landscapes, but also verbal maps. These worked to orient readers, reinforcing and expanding the cartographic order of the emerging colonial dominion. Drawing upon the work of critical and cultural geographers as well as literary theorists, Sarah Wylie Krotz opens up important aesthetic and political dimensions of both familiar and obscure texts from the nineteenth century, including Thomas Cary's Abram's Plains, George Monro Grant's Ocean to Ocean, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush. Highlighting the complex territoriality that emerges from their cartographic aesthetics, Krotz offers fresh readings of these texts, illuminating their role in an emerging spatial imaginary that was at once deeply invested in the production of colonial spaces and at the same time enmeshed in the realities of confronting Indigenous sovereignties.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Maps and Text-Maps; 1 Illuminating the Horizon: The Cartographic Aesthetics of Two Early Long Poems; 2 The Land up Close: Mapping Disorder in Roughing It in the Bush; 3 The Intimate Geography of Wilderness: The Spatiality of Catharine Parr Traill's Botanical Inventories; 4 Writing and Reading the Northwest: George Monro Grant and the Palimpsest of Settler Space; 5 The Poet in Treaty Territory: The Literary Cartography of "The Height of Land"; Conclusion: Maps and Counter-Maps (On Getting Lost); Appendix of Figures; Notes; Bibliography

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