Topophrenia

1. This book is an exploration of the relationship between space, place, mapping, and literature and how an understanding of these relationships are now considered integral to contemporary work in the humanities and the social sciences

2. The author Robert Tally is a mid-career academic with a prodigious critical output. He serves on the editorial and editorial advisory boards of several journals, is series editor for Palgrave Macmillan's "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary...
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1. This book is an exploration of the relationship between space, place, mapping, and literature and how an understanding of these relationships are now considered integral to contemporary work in the humanities and the social sciences

2. The author Robert Tally is a mid-career academic with a prodigious critical output. He serves on the editorial and editorial advisory boards of several journals, is series editor for Palgrave Macmillan's "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies," and is an executive committee member of the MLA's Division on Literary Criticism. He has an online presence that includes a well-maintained website.

3. The book is written in a way that makes the adoption of single chapters for course packets possible and would appeal to graduate students and upper-level undergraduates working on literary theory.