TY - JOUR

T1 - Mapping Victorian adventure fiction

T2 - silences, doublings, and the Ur-map in Treasure Island and King Solomon's Mines

AU - Bushell, Sally

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - While there has been much critical interest in the relationship between visual and verbal forms in the Victorian period, there has been no real attempt to develop ways of exploring and interpreting the relationship between maps and texts. This paper begins to address such a lack by theorizing the dynamic between map and text for the map in adventure fiction. Two iconic maps (those for Treasure Island and King Solomon's Mines) are analyzed in an interdisciplinary way by drawing upon the discipline of cartography, particularly critical cartography. Three cartographic concepts are explored in relation to the literary examples: the accuracy of the map; the concept of cartographic silence; and the authenticity of the map.

AB - While there has been much critical interest in the relationship between visual and verbal forms in the Victorian period, there has been no real attempt to develop ways of exploring and interpreting the relationship between maps and texts. This paper begins to address such a lack by theorizing the dynamic between map and text for the map in adventure fiction. Two iconic maps (those for Treasure Island and King Solomon's Mines) are analyzed in an interdisciplinary way by drawing upon the discipline of cartography, particularly critical cartography. Three cartographic concepts are explored in relation to the literary examples: the accuracy of the map; the concept of cartographic silence; and the authenticity of the map.

KW - map treasure island king solomons mines

U2 - 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.4.02

DO - 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.4.02

M3 - Journal article

VL - 57

SP - 611

EP - 637

JO - Victorian Studies

JF - Victorian Studies

SN - 1527-2052

IS - 4

ER -