A wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys 1 The Poet, Voyager, and Cartographer Are ‘of Imagination All Compact’ Crossing the Borders of Early Modern Poetry and Cartography   Małgorzata Grzegorzewska 2 Fragmented Body versus Cartographic Representation The Early Modern Subject and the Marlovian Transgressors   Klaudia Łączyńska 3 Marcus the Magnificent Closure and Resolution in Joël Dicker’s The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair   Tom Ue 4 ‘To Deploy an Errant Eye’ Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Early Modern’ Fantasia   Julian Wolfreys 5 The Mapping of Empire in Hilary Davies’ “Imperium”   Jean Ward 6 Mapping and Unmapping the World Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky versus Unmapping Memory. Looking for Hildegard of Bingen by Desmond Graham   Olga Kubińska and Wojciech Kubiński 7 Charting Milan in Central Asia Lombard Maps and Asian Toponymy in Luciano Erba’s Poetry   Samuele Fioravanti 8 A ‘Monolithic Map/ of We Know Not What’ Alec Finlay’s Chorographic Poetics   Monika Szuba 9 Unseeable Maps The Experience of Space in the Blind Walk Performance   Izabela Zawadzka 10 Maps, Literature, and Law’s Idiocy Literary Tropes as Incentive, Ground and Veil for Taking the Commons   Frans-Willem Korsten 11 Mapping the Sacramental Inner Circle by Jerzy Peterkiewicz   Aleksandra Słyszewska 12 Camino (Hyper)Real California’s Cartographic Imaginations   Grzegorz Welizarowicz Index