Week Eight
Title
Week Eight
Subject
Literary Maps
Contributor
Profs Campbell and Jakacki
Items in the Week Eight Collection
An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741)
"An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River eastwards to Point Judith and from thence northwards to the town of Providence and from thence southerly or the easterly shore round Bristol and from thence north easterly to…
"Everything to love about Anne of Green Gables"
A promotional map via "Anne & Gilbert: The Musical." Literary tourism/geography.
Skálholt Map (Vinland)
A 1570 original by an Icelander (Stefansson) then copied by by the Bishop of Skálholt. The earliest attempt to combine cartographic knowledge with the stories conveyed in the Vinland sagas.
The Emotions of London
Digital Humanities textual analysis of emotions in literature set in London, 1700-1900
Carte geographiqve de la novvelle Franse (sketch by Henry David Thoreau)
Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and text. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4] p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2