JOURNAL ARTICLE

Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Adam Sills (review).

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, v. 56, n. 2. P. 330 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Sherman, Alexander 3 of 3

Abstract

Though Sills sometimes distinguishes cartography and map, as when he interprets Bunyan's map of salvation and damnation as showing that maps must be read allegorically, not "done away with altogether", he still ends up against the map tout court, concluding that Bunyan's neighborly spaces are "not reducible to a map" (40-1). For example, in a powerful chapter on Aphra Behn's I Oroonoko i , Sills insists on the inseparability of Atlantic cartography and the slave trade, arguing that Behn understood and criticized this link. Regardless of whether such contextualist reasoning is inherently flawed, it would persuade better by more carefully distinguishing cartography and map and remaining open to less determined possibilities for mapping - if only to show that these possibilities still share cartography's curse. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2023/01, Vol. 56, Issue 2, p330
  • Document Type:Product Review
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.0020
  • Accession Number:162635008
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