Towards a Political Literary Geography

Authors

  • Laurie McRae Andrew Royal Holloway, University of London

Keywords:

politics, spatial event, ideology, knowable community, literary geography

Abstract

Literary geographical work to date has left the political aspects of literary space under-examined. How might we explicitly frame the question of a political literary geography? This position paper draws on Raymond Williams' idea of the 'knowable community' of the literary text in order to sketch possible directions for such an avenue.

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Williams, R. (1977) Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Published

2018-02-11

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Thinking Space

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