The atlas of literature

Abstract

Uses maps, essays, and photographs to explore the connection between writers and place, looking at houses and communities where authors lived and worked, places they frequented, and the impact of their writings on those places, and visiting some of the settings and scenes from the books themselves.

Contents

The middle ages and the renaissance -- The age of reason -- The romantics -- The age of industrialism and empire -- The age of realism -- The modern world -- After the second world war -- The world today.