AN Errant Eye

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Focusing on the evolution of topography in early modern France, the book explores how the representation of local spaces influenced literary and visual forms. It presents a "new poetics of space," analyzing Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography. Tom Conley offers insightful interpretations of maps, woodcuts, and poems, highlighting a late Renaissance crisis where spatial, subjective, and political boundaries become ambiguous amidst a growing landscape of printed literature.