Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance

Katarzyna Lecky (Bucknell University)

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Oxford University Press
25 April 2019

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Historical maps & atlases

Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown.

This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.

By: Katarzyna Lecky (Bucknell University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780198834694
ISBN 10: 0198834691
Series: Early Modern Literary Geographies
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 25 April 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Common Space: Poetry and Cartography Chapter One: Spenser's Miniature Map of Faerie Chapter Two: Daniel's Imperial Survey Chapter Three: Jonson's Broken Compasses and Bit Parts Chapter Four: Davenant's Numerical Nationhood Chapter Five: Milton's Map of Liberty Epilogue: Argos Eyes

Katarzyna Lecky's research explores how concepts of social justice articulated in natural philosophy and the new sciences informed Renaissance literature. She has published in Exemplaria, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Philological Quarterly, Reformation, Studies in English Literature, and Spenser Studies, as well as edited collections, and has earned fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Folger Shakespeare, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries, among others. Her next book project examines botanical models of nativity, natality, and naturalization in seventeenth-century literature and medicine.

Reviews for Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance

an impressive book ... This cogent and original book makes a signal contribution to our understanding of early modern print markets and publics. * David J. Baker, Modern Philology *