The "spatial turn" in literary studies

The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes thirty-two essays on topics such as:

Topics Covered

• Spatial theory and practice
• Critical methodologies
• Work sites
• Cities and the geography of urban experience
• Maps, territories, readings

The contributors to this volume demonstrate how a variety of romantic, realist, modernist, and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world, and of our own world system today.