Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies

Neal Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-century Literature at Aberystwyth University (UK). His publications include Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place (2022), Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Post-War Poetry (co-edited with David Cooper; 2013) and Regional Modernisms (co-edited with James Moran; 2013).David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing. His many critical and creative publications on literary geographies include Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (with Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta-Flores; 2016) and the pamphlet, The Duddon Estuary: The Myriad Lines of its Relations (2021).

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNeal Alexander and David Cooper Part I: Critical methodologies1. Reading literature, reading geographyMarc Brosseau 2. Relational literary geographiesSheila Hones 3. Literary geographies and the limits of representationHayden Lorimer 4. Literary assemblagesJon Anderson 5. Postcolonial literary geographiesMadhu Krishnan and Penny Cartwright 6. Literature, environment, geography Jos Smith 7. Mapping literature Sara Luchetta Part II: Keywords8. SpacePeter Merriman 9. Place Sten Pultz Moslund 10. LandscapeJohn Wylie 11. RegionJuha Ridanpää 12. MobilitiesLynne Pearce 13. DiasporaFrançoise KrálPart III: Literary geography and literary history14. Paths and parchment: Medieval literary geographiesMarianne O’Doherty 15. Geographies of early modern English literatures and the place of the stageJulie Sanders 16. The eighteenth century: Sights, scales, travelsRobert Mayhew17. Romantic literary geographiesPenny Bradshaw 18. The nineteenth centuryDavid McLaughlin 19. Literary geographies of modernism Neal Alexander 20. Contemporary literary geography Alexander BeaumontPart IV: Places, spaces, and landforms21. The cityMonica Manolescu 22. IslandsUma Kothari and Joseph Palis 23. Rivers Sarah de Leeuw24. The seaJohn Brannigan 25. MountainsJonathan Westaway 26. BorderlandsAna Mª Manzanas Calvo 27. UtopiasJamie Harris 28. Outer Space James KnealePart V: Forms and genres29. The novel: Performing Black geographies in African American fictionHerman Beavers 30. Geo graphienJames Riding and Olivia Mason 31. PoetryHeather H. Yeung 32. Drama and performanceLaurence Publicover 33. ComicsGiada Peterle Part VI: Beyond the academy 34. Murderscapes, deathscapes, and workscapes in Québec’s Eastern Townships fiction and ‘immersive literary geographies’Ceri Morgan 35. Experiential literary geography in the mind and in MinecraftSally Bushell 36. Literary river-walking and the politics of place-makingEmily Potter and Brigid Magner 37. Trees, texts, and place-based education: The pedagogic potential of literary geographyDavid Cooper and Christopher HanleyAfterword 38. Geography and the creative writer Tim CresswellIndex