Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French WritingMapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky. |
Contents
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Introduction | 17 |
From Cosmography to Cartography Power and Representation in Early Modern French Maps | 45 |
Writing Space | 48 |
Champlain in Québec | 55 |
Abstraction as Metaphor | 67 |
François dAubignacs History of Time | 126 |
Boileau and the Disciplinary Map | 140 |
Eloquence at the Boundaries Academic Cartography in Furetiere and Sorel | 147 |
In Defense of Eloquence | 151 |
Sorel Responds | 162 |
The Boundaries of Allegory | 170 |
Mapping the Ancients and the Moderns On the Discursive History of Allegorical Cartography | 177 |
The Shield as Globe | 180 |
Monarchy and the Representation of Space | 74 |
Mapping Nonsense Meaning and Transgression in Scudérys Carte de Tendre | 83 |
The Space of Meaning | 88 |
Mapping Tendre | 93 |
The Conversation as Map | 100 |
Allergy and Subversion | 103 |
Terrae incognitae | 114 |
The Rape of Tendre and the Violence of Mapping | 117 |
Rewrting Tendre | 118 |
The Absent Center | 189 |
In the Temple of Saturn | 197 |
Callières and the Persistence of Rhetoric | 209 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Notes | 218 |
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