Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Edited by William E. Cain Professor of English Wellesley College A Routledge Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory William E. Cain, General Editor Rhizosphere Idioms of Self-Interest Gilles Deleuze and the “Minor” American Credit, Identity, and Property in English Writings of William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Renaissance Literature Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, and William Jill Phillips Ingram Faulkner Mary F. Zamberlin Machine and Metaphor The Ethics of Language in American Realism The Spell Cast by Remains Jennifer Carol Cook The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature “Keeping Up Her Geography” Patricia A. Ross Women’s Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture Strange Cases Tanya Ann Kennedy The Medical Case History and the British Novel Contested Masculinities Jason Daniel Tougaw Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray Revisiting Vietnam Nalin Jayasena Memoirs, Memorials, Museums Julia Bleakney Unsettled Narratives The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Equity in English Renaissance Melville and London Literature David Farrier Thomas More and Edmund Spenser Andrew J. Majeske The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction “You Factory Folks Who Sing This Sharon DeGraw Rhyme Will Surely Understand” Culture, Ideology, and Action in the Gastonia Parsing the City Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy’s Olive Dargan London as Language Wes Mantooth Heather C. Easterling “Visionary Dreariness” Negotiating the Modern Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime Orientalism and Indianness in the Markus Poetzsch Anglophone World Amit Ray Fighting the Flames The Spectacular Performance of Fire at Novels, Maps, Modernity Coney Island The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 Lynn Kathleen Sally Eric Bulson Novels, Maps, Modernity The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 Eric Bulson Routledge New York & London In memory of Stephen D. Bulson Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Orienting, Disorienting the Novel 1 Chapter One On Getting Oriented 19 Chapter Two Melville’s Zig-Zag World-Circle 43 Chapter Three Joyce’s Geodesy 65 Chapter Four Pynchon’s Baedeker Trick 85 Chapter Five On Getting Lost 107 Notes 133 Bibliography 159 Index 173 vii List of Figures Figure 1. Places mentioned in Dickens’ Works, 1912. From J. G. Bartholomew, A Literary and Historical Atlas of Europe. 5 Figure 2. Map from Robinson Crusoe, 1719. From The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 4th edition. 7 Figure 3. Map from Don Quixote. From the third edition of Don Quixote for la Real Academia Española. 21 Figure 4. Map: Paris in the 1820s. From Père Goriot, ed. Peter Brooks. Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Co. 23 Figure 5. Walk One. From Albert Hopkins and Newberry Frost Read (eds.), A Dickens Atlas (1923). 34 Figure 6. Walk Six. From Albert Hopkins and Newberry Frost Read (eds.), A Dickens Atlas (1923). 36 Figure 7. Victorian London. From Martin Rowson, Literary London. Courtesy of Granta. 40 Figure 8. Map of Nantucket, 1835. From Obed Macy, A History of Nantucket. 46 Figure 9. Map Illustrative of the Currents and Whaling Grounds by the U.S. Ex. Ex, 1848. From Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 56 ix