Spatial Literary Studies

Introduction. Spaces of the Text: Literary Studies after the Spatial Turn

Robert T. Tally Jr.

Part I. Geocritical Theory and Practice

1. Geocriticism at a Crossroads: An Overview

Mariya Shymchyshyn

2. How to Do Narratives with Maps: Cartography as a Performative Act in Gulliver's Travels and Through the Looking Glass

Emmanuelle Peraldo and Yann Calberac,

3. Beyond Binaries and Metaphor: The Counterhegemonic Possibilities of Place

Jessica Maucione

Part II. Geographies of the Text

4. Mallarme, Poet of the Earthly World: On Spatiality in L'Apres midi d'une Faune

Rogerio de Melo Franco

5. Zola's Spatial Explorations of Second Empire Paris

Julia Kroger

6. "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?": The Demonic Grounds of M. NourbeSe Philip's Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence

Kate Siklosi

7. Rethinking the Beginning: Toni Morrison and the Dramatization of Liminality

Michelle Dreiding

8. "You've been here before?": Space and Memory in Stephen Poliakoff's Dramas

Elizabeth Robertson

Part III. Geography in the Text

9. Caves as Anti-Places: Robert Penn Warren's The Cave and Cormac McCarthy's Child of God

Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher

10. A Geocritical Approach to the Role of the Desert in Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

Sarah Ager

11. Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips's Ghettoes in The Nature of Blood and The European Tribe

I. Murat Öner

12. The Eternal Return and the Country/City Dynamic in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Adam McKee

13. Transgression, Boundaries, and Power: Rethinking the Space of Postcolonial Literature

Dustin Crowley

Part IV. The Problematics of Place

14. "Oh, man, I'm nowhere": Ralph Ellison and the Psychospatial Terrain of Mid-Century Harlem

Walter Bosse

15. Covington is the Non-Place for Me: Walker Percy's Topophilia in the Deserts of Theory and Consumption

Chris Margrave

16. Alfred Hitchcock's The Rear Window: Cold War, Spatiality, and the Paranoid Subject

Beatrice Kohler

17. Locating the Clearing: Contested Boundaries in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon

Will Cunningham

18. Remapping the Present: Dave Eggers's Spatial Virtuality and the Condition of Literature

Nathan Frank

Part V. Plus Ultra

19. Spatial Literary Studies versus Literary Geography?: Boundaries and Borders amidst Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space and Literature

Robert T. Tally Jr.