Literary Geographyprovides a valuable introduction to the field, making work in cultural geography more accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies. Acknowledging how the cultural turn in human geography and the spatial turn in literary studies are together reinvigorating the interdisciplinary field of literary geography, this volume:provides an introductory overview of cultural geography as a subfield in human geographyintroduces literary geography and discusses its connections with spatial theory, literary studies and the humanitiesreviews key works on literature, space, and geography across the range of literary genres, and the significance for cultural geography of post-structuralism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, geopolitics and positionalityincorporates a wealth of examples of work on literature, space and place from geography and literary studiesoutlines ways in which collaborations between cultural geography and literary studies could lead to new initiatives in interdisciplinary literary geographyAccessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for those coming to the topic for the first time, those taking courses in literary and cultural theory and in cultural geography, and those interested in literary genres such as travel writing and postcolonial fiction. | Literary Geography by Sheila Hones, Paperback | Indigo Chapters