Mappaemundi, Maps and the Romantic Aesthetic in Children's Books.
This article considers the extent to which medieval mappaemundi are an important precedent for literary cartographies in fiction for children. It connects the notion of embeddedness to Peta Mitchell's (2011) suggestion that mappaemundi refused to entertain the later, post-Enlightenment cartographic...
| Publicado en: | Children's Literature in Education Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 89 - 103 |
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