...This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the purpose of the book, which is an interdisciplinary study of British literary and scientific culture in the first half of the 19th century, focusing on the development in those decades of a new spatial imagination. Its central concern...

... magistracy cohabitation public space private space private home spatial imagination privacy architecture physical layouts housing practices What was at stake when a Vilnan of one confession or religion became a neighbor in a house owned by someone of another, or found neighbors of other confessions...

... Elizabeth Gaskell Catherine Helen Spence The Novel Emigration Literature Spatial Imagination Geopolitics ‘Have you been in England?’ asked Martin. ‘In print I have, sir,’ said the General, ‘not otherwise. We air a reading people here, sir. You will meet with much information among us...

... but that that recognition is dependent on readers’ own spatial imaginations and involves colossal scalar distortion of local worlds. In particular, mapping tiny-scale worlds obscures the local importance not of where people live but with whom . forager intimate communities Gorge fictive...

...Examining the literary construction of place in Charles Brockden Brown’s fiction and nonfiction, this chapter argues that the author’s spatial imagination was representative of eighteenth-century geographical thought while also anticipating new humanist theories of cultural geography...

..., and Shanghai, the chapters assert that Asian cities have to be understood not as global models of futuristic city planning but as larger landscapes of spatial imagination that have specific cultural and political trajectories. Religion plays a central role in the politics of heritage that is emerging from...

... class Harvey David indigenous peoples manuscript texts Canada Settler Emigration Migration Emigration Literature Textual Materiality Distance Globalization Print culture Global circulation Spatial Imagination On 10 August 1852, a twenty-three-year-old man, Charles Henry Lines, finally set...

...This chapter examines spatial imagination in three satirical works: the Cinquiesme livre, an apocryphal publication that presents itself as a work by the late Rabelais; a Genevan mock cosmography of the “papist world” titled Histoire de la mappe-monde papistique...

...This chapter studies the connection between the imagination and practice of public space and the conceptions of freedom. It explains that political wall writings and political posters serve as examples of spatial imagination that link the body, city, space, and the body politic, turning...