Chris Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she joined the faculty in 2012 after completing her doctoral degree in English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature, especially Spenser and Milton; lyric and epic poetry; critical animal studies and ecocriticism; and geocritical approaches to literature. She is the author of articles and essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, and her research has been supported by the Council on Research, the Newberry Library, the Folger Library, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum & Collection.

The last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of interest in Renaissance maps, cartography, and representations of space, fueled in part by a revolution in mapping technology that has suddenly allowed our phones to guide us to our destinations or to zoom in on an image of our house taken from an orbiting satellite. Chris Barrett's erudite and insightful book engages this material while considering the peculiar and sometimes fraught ways that English Protestant poets reacted to their own era's cartographic turn.

• Introduction: Mapping Anxiety in Early Modern English Literature 1: The Dream of an Unmappable Nation: Allegory, Cartography, and Spenser's Faerie Queene 2: Time River Body: Personification and Inappropriate Detail in Drayton's Poly-Olbion 3: Milton's Paradise Lost and the Atlas of Violence Conclusion: Wonders in the Deep

Chris Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she joined the faculty in 2012 after completing her doctoral degree in English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature, especially Spenser and Milton; lyric and epic poetry; critical animal studies and ecocriticism; and geocritical approaches to literature. She is the author of articles and essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, and her research has been supported by the Council on Research, the Newberry Library, the Folger Library, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum & Collection.

The last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of interest in Renaissance maps, cartography, and representations of space, fueled in part by a revolution in mapping technology that has suddenly allowed our phones to guide us to our destinations or to zoom in on an image of our house taken from an orbiting satellite. Chris Barrett's erudite and insightful book engages this material while considering the peculiar and sometimes fraught ways that English Protestant poets reacted to their own era's cartographic turn.

• Introduction: Mapping Anxiety in Early Modern English Literature 1: The Dream of an Unmappable Nation: Allegory, Cartography, and Spenser's Faerie Queene 2: Time River Body: Personification and Inappropriate Detail in Drayton's Poly-Olbion 3: Milton's Paradise Lost and the Atlas of Violence Conclusion: Wonders in the Deep

Chris Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she joined the faculty in 2012 after completing her doctoral degree in English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature, especially Spenser and Milton; lyric and epic poetry; critical animal studies and ecocriticism; and geocritical approaches to literature. She is the author of articles and essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, and her research has been supported by the Council on Research, the Newberry Library, the Folger Library, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum & Collection.

The last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of interest in Renaissance maps, cartography, and representations of space, fueled in part by a revolution in mapping technology that has suddenly allowed our phones to guide us to our destinations or to zoom in on an image of our house taken from an orbiting satellite. Chris Barrett's erudite and insightful book engages this material while considering the peculiar and sometimes fraught ways that English Protestant poets reacted to their own era's cartographic turn.

• Introduction: Mapping Anxiety in Early Modern English Literature 1: The Dream of an Unmappable Nation: Allegory, Cartography, and Spenser's Faerie Queene 2: Time River Body: Personification and Inappropriate Detail in Drayton's Poly-Olbion 3: Milton's Paradise Lost and the Atlas of Violence Conclusion: Wonders in the Deep