What to read after Romantic Cartographies?

"Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to reveal the full reach and significance of cartography in Romantic-period culture. It aims to define and exemplify the forms of cartographic criticism emerging from various 'spatial turns' that have energized the Humanities since the 1980s. Thus, the volume calibrates the significance of the cartographic imagination for the Romantic period itself, as well as the various cartographic frames through which Romanticism has been recognized and de-familiarised. The volume interrogates fully the concept of Romantic cartography in historicized terms as well as from the perspective of our own highly spatialised culture. It seeks to diversify the ways in which critical Romantic cartographies are written by approaching them through a wide range of forms; textual, visual, tactile and digital. It argues for the emergence of a cartographic imagination in the period and for the importance of literary cartography as a practice in our own time. As such it engages, on the one hand, with acts of mapping in the Romantic period, asking: In what ways did Romantic-period culture seek to map itself? What is specifically Romantic about the cartographic projects that dominate the period as we understand them? On the other, it explores the way in which the period has been mapped and re-mapped critically over time, posing such questions as: To what extent are the ways in which we map the world or understand maps underpinned by Romantic preconceptions? To what kind of imaginative paradigm did practices of mapping give rise (and vice versa)?"--