Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making possible new textual geographies and literary cartographies.

Introduction. Spaces of the Text: Literary Studies after the Spatial TurnRobert T. Tally Jr.Part I. Geocritical Theory and Practice1. Geocriticism at a Crossroads: An OverviewMariya Shymchyshyn2. How to Do Narratives with Maps: Cartography as a Performative Act in Gulliver’s Travels and Through the Looking GlassEmmanuelle Peraldo and Yann Calbérac,3. Beyond Binaries and Metaphor: The Counterhegemonic Possibilities of PlaceJessica MaucionePart II. Geographies of the Text4. Mallarmé, Poet of the Earthly World: On Spatiality in L’Après midi d’une FauneRogério de Melo Franco5. Zola’s Spatial Explorations of Second Empire ParisJulia Kröger6. "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?": The Demonic Grounds of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of SilenceKate Siklosi7. Rethinking the Beginning: Toni Morrison and the Dramatization of LiminalityMichelle Dreiding8. "You’ve been here before?": Space and Memory in Stephen Poliakoff’s DramasElizabeth RobertsonPart III. Geography in the Text9. Caves as Anti-Places: Robert Penn Warren’s The Cave and Cormac McCarthy’s Child of GodRalph Crane and Lisa Fletcher10. A Geocritical Approach to the Role of the Desert in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and Michael Ondaatje’s The English PatientSarah Ager11. Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips’s Ghettoes in The Nature of Blood and The European TribeI. Murat Öner12. The Eternal Return and the Country/City Dynamic in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of BeingAdam McKee13. Transgression, Boundaries, and Power: Rethinking the Space of Postcolonial LiteratureDustin CrowleyPart IV. The Problematics of Place14. "Oh, man, I’m nowhere": Ralph Ellison and the Psychospatial Terrain of Mid-Century HarlemWalter Bosse15. Covington is the Non-Place for Me: Walker Percy’s Topophilia in the Deserts of Theory and ConsumptionChris Margrave16. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Rear Window: Cold War, Spatiality, and the Paranoid SubjectBeatrice Kohler17. Locating the Clearing: Contested Boundaries in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Song of Solomon Will Cunningham18. Remapping the Present: Dave Eggers’s Spatial Virtuality and the Condition of LiteratureNathan FrankPart V. Plus Ultra19. Spatial Literary Studies versus Literary Geography?: Boundaries and Borders amidst Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space and LiteratureRobert T. Tally Jr.