TY - CHAP

T1 - Footprints in Spatial Narratives

T2 - Wearable Technology, Active Reading, and a New Digital Literary Mapping of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Scafell Pike

AU - Taylor, Joanna

AU - Donaldson, Christopher

N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination on 31/12/2021, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Narrative-Spaces-An-Interdisciplinary-Examination/Punday/p/book/9780367514433

PY - 2021/12/31

Y1 - 2021/12/31

N2 - Maps might be good at representing a landscape’s facts, but they often fail to capture the human stories – historical and personal – that imbue a place with meaning. These limitations are exaggerated by digital maps which, like their analogue precursors, cannot comprehend an embodied sense of place. This chapter demonstrates how a literary spatial narrative affords new ways of rectifying this limitation. It demonstrates how incorporating embodied data – including heart-rate monitoring and GPS tracks – alongside a literary text can transform how we understand the role of embodiment in historical and contemporary place-making.

AB - Maps might be good at representing a landscape’s facts, but they often fail to capture the human stories – historical and personal – that imbue a place with meaning. These limitations are exaggerated by digital maps which, like their analogue precursors, cannot comprehend an embodied sense of place. This chapter demonstrates how a literary spatial narrative affords new ways of rectifying this limitation. It demonstrates how incorporating embodied data – including heart-rate monitoring and GPS tracks – alongside a literary text can transform how we understand the role of embodiment in historical and contemporary place-making.

U2 - 10.4324/9781003053880

DO - 10.4324/9781003053880

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9780367514433

SN - 9780367514440

BT - Digital Narrative Spaces

A2 - Punday, Daniel

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -