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...

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Published in:	Children's Literature in Education Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 89 - 103
Main Author:	Doherty, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Mar2017
Subjects:	Mappae mundi Maps in literature Children's literature Rhetoric Cartography Robinson Crusoe (Book : Defoe) Swallows & Amazons (Book) Outcast (Book)
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