Mapping Discord

by Jeffrey N. Peters

Overview

A specialist in the literature and culture of 17th-century France, Peters (French. U. of Kentucky) examines a number of imaginary maps that combine visual language from contemporary cartographic pictorialism with a centuries-old tradition of allegorical discourses and utopic speculation. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780845345580
Publisher:	University of Delaware Press
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	9
	Acknowledgments	11
	Note on Translations	13
	Introduction	17
1.	From Cosmography to Cartography: Power and Representation in Early Modern French Maps	45
	Writing Space	48
	From Space to Place: Champlain in Quebec	55
	Abstraction as Metaphor	67
	Monarchy and the Representation of Space	74
2.	Mapping Nonsense: Meaning and Transgression in Scudery's "Carte de Tendre"	83
	The Space of Meaning	88
	Mapping Tendre	93
	The Conversation as Map	100
	Allegory and Subversion	103
	Terrae incognitae	114
3.	The Rape of "Tendre" and the Violence of Mapping	117
	Rewriting Tendre	118
	Francois d'Aubignac's History of Time	126
	Boileau and the Disciplinary Map	140
4.	Eloquence at the Boundaries: Academic Cartography in Furetiere and Sorel	147
	In Defense of Eloquence	151
	Sorel Responds	162
	The Boundaries of Allegory	170
5.	Mapping the Ancients and Moderns: On the Discursive History of Allegorical Cartography	177
	The Shield as Globe	180
	The Absent Center	189
	In the Temple of Saturn	197
	Callieres and the Persistence of Rhetoric	209
	Conclusion	212
	Notes	218
	Bibliography	261
	Index	279