Book ID: CBB741313206

The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor (2020)

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Della Dora, Veronica (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 416
Language: English

The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the “metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a point of tension.” Featuring numerous illustrations, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor is an intellectual history of the term mantle and its metaphorical representation in art and literature, geography and cartography. Through the history of this metaphor from antiquity to the modern day, we learn about shifting perceptions and representations of global space, about our planetary condition, and about the nature of geography itself.

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Authors & Contributors
Withers, Charles W. J.
Elizabeth Leane
Grijs, Richard de
Ashworth, Mick
Bischoff, Michael
Shcheglov, Dmitry A.
Concepts
Geography
Science, general histories
Cartography
Earth (planet)
Maps; atlases
Metaphors; analogies
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Medieval
20th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Antarctica
Jerusalem
Québec (Canada)
Florence (Italy)
France
Institutions
British Library
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