Reading and Mapping Fiction

Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. She is interested in mapping texts in a range of ways (across process; empirically; digitally). She is also principal investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded literary mapping project Chronotopic Cartographies.

'… the author crafts a revelatory hermeneutic tool for exploring the virtues of literature by innovatively blending aspects of cognition, cartography, and criticism. Bushell focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries - including reflections on genres and individuals, but her thinking extends into the digital age.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice

• 1. A shifting relationship: from literary geography to critical literary mapping; 2. Historicising the fictional map; 3. Doubleness and silence in adventure and spy fiction; 4. Mapping murder; 5. Playspace: spatialising children's fiction; 6. Mapping worlds: Tolkien's cartographic imagination; 7. Fearing the map: representational priorities and referential assumptions; 8. Reading as mapping, or, what cannot be visualised.