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Preface: Abstract machine

Acknowledgments

Part 1: GIS and the digital humanities

1. Introduction

From Lascaux to the Sea of Tranquility

What is a GIS?

GIS and the digital humanities

Contents

2. Toward the spatial turn

A brief history of Western geographical thought

Post-structuralist perspectives

Deep mapping

GIS and the space of conjecture

3. Writing time and space with GIS: The conquest and mapping of seventeenth-century Ireland ...

Period, place, and GIS

Geovisualizing Irish history

Rebellion and conquest in 3D

Surveying the Cromwellian Settlement

William Petty and the Down Survey

From the ballybetagh to the barony

The Books of Survey and Distribution

Database mapping the Books

Visualizing the webs of history

Part 2: Writers, texts, and mapping

4. GIS and the poetic eye

Mapping Kavanagh

Bakhtinian GIS

Creating a digital dinnseanchas

Plotting the poetic eye

5. Modeling and visualizing in GIS: The topological influences of Homer’s Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno on James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922)

Joycean cartographies

Homer and Dante’s topologies

Modeling Ulysses

The topologies of Ulysses

Upper Hell

Middle of Hell (City of Dis)

Lower Hell

Purgatory

Visualizing a “new Inferno in full sail”

6. Psychogeographical GIS: Creating a “kaleidoscope equipped with consciousness,” Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

The novel as urban GIS

SpatializingAt Swim-Two-Birds

Psychogeographical mapping with GIS

Vico-Bakhtin timespaces

Counter-cartographical GIS

7. Geovisualizing Beckett

Samuel Beckett’s GIStimeline

Geovisual narratology

Dublin-Paris, 1916–30

Beckett’s bottled climates

London, 1933–35

France, 1945–46

Bricolage and biography

Part 3. Toward a humanities GIS

8. The terrae incognitae of humanities GIS

The lost mapmaker

The map theater

The geographer’s science and the storyteller’s art

About the author

Index