This site has lain dormant for several months; it’s time to revive it. I’ll bring it back with a series of literary maps. The literary map is an odd genre. Unlike a standard map, it doesn’t guide the viewer over real terrain, but through an imaginary space. It can either show a series of fictional events in a real location, or a series of events in a fictional setting.

Here, as an example of the former, is a map of Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, from A Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe, by J. G. Bartholomew (Everyman’s Library, 1910). Please click to enlarge.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)