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An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence-some idealizations, some demonizations-in the construction of identities for themselves and for others. Drawing on oral traditions, especially as represented in traditional ballads, broadsides, and tale collections, the contributors consider fertile landscapes of the mind where utopias overflow with bliss and abundance, stereotyped national and ethnic caricatures define the lives of "others," nostalgia glorifies home and occupation, and idealized and mythological animals serve as cultural icons and guideposts to harmonious social life.Italian Canadian Luisa Del Giudice looks at the rich Italian variants of the traditional gastronomic utopia called Il Paese di Cuccagna, the Land of Cockaigne, "a mythic land of plenty where rivers run with 'milk and honey' (wine, beer, coffee, or rum), food falls like manna from heaven, work is banished, and no one ever grows old" and considers its persistence in immigrant worldview. From New Delhi, Sadhana Naithani examines the "preface-d space" that as India, colonial British authors imagined and passed on to readers in formulaic prefaces to collections of Indian folklore. Reimund Kvideland, of Norway, and Gerald Porter, an English scholar teaching in Finland, show how nineteenth-century Norwegian and English railway navvies (itinerant laborers) idealized their low-status occupations in song. In a second essay, Gerald Porter demonstrates through broadside ballad texts the role of caricatures of the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish in constructing "Englishness." Turks were among the "others" Germans demonized, as Tom Cheesman, who teaches in Wales, explains in his paper on their historical representations in German street ballads. Cozette Griffin-Kremer of France paints a sweeping picture of the landscape of the mind that written and popular traditions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales built around bovine bodies, the human-cow partnership, and the mysteries of domestication, thereby providing conceptions of transcendence of the human condition. Finally, Vaira Freibergs, a scholar and the current president of Latvia, explains the images of longing for idealized childhood homes that married women, exiled by a patrilocal culture, expressed in Latvian folksong.

Oral tradition. --- Utopias. --- Imaginary places. --- Ethnicity. --- Nationalism. --- Nostalgia. --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Ethnic identity --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Tradition, Oral --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history

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During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences-particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology-from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.

Imaginary places --- Cosmography --- Ethnology --- Philosophy and science --- Wonder (Philosophy) --- History - General --- History & Archaeology --- Early works to 1800 --- History and criticism --- History --- Science and philosophy --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Lieux imaginaires --- Cosmographie --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Cosmology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Science --- Philosophy --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Philosophie et sciences --- Etonnement (Philosophie) --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle --- Ciencia --- Filosofía --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 18th century --- Filosofía y ciencias --- Ciencias y filosofía --- Sistemas, Teoría de los --- Mecanicismo (Filosofía) --- Semántica (Filosofía) --- Positivismo --- Conocimiento, Teoría del

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Maps have the power to transport us, filled as they are with wonder and possibility. Here, internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights, encompassing not only the maps that appear in their books, but also the maps that have inspired them and the sketches they create in writing. Philip Pullman recounts a map he drew for an early novel; Robert Macfarlane reflects on his cartophilia, set off by 'Treasure Island'; Daniel Reeve describes working on 'The Hobbit' films; Miraphora Mina recalls creating 'The Marauder's Map' for 'Harry Potter'; David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of 'Cloud Atlas'. And there's much more besides. Amidst a cornucopia of beautiful images, including unpublished sketches by authors, there are maps of the world as envisaged in medieval times, maps from classics of literature and cherished stories, as well as maps of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy, from Atlantis to Westeros, Narnia and Utopia, from Mercator to Tolkien.

Imaginary places --- cartografie --- imaginaire cartografie --- kunst en literatuur --- geografie --- aardrijkskunde --- 766.022 --- literatuur --- grafische vormgeving --- grafisch design --- grafisch ontwerp --- informatiedesign --- information design --- 7.047 --- 912.43 --- Thema's in de kunst ; cartografie ; imaginaire geografische kaarten --- Thema's in de grafische vormgeving ; cartografie ; kaarten en mappen --- Literatuur en imaginaire geografische kaarten --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Iconografie ; landschappen, zeegezichten, panorama's, land-art --- Geografie ; kartografische beelden, kaarten --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Fiction --- atlases --- fantasies [literary genre] --- cartographers --- fantasies [literary works]