How do James Joyce's and Jane Austen's books make use of space?

What is it about?

The paper looks at the role of places and spaces in how fiction operates in the different genres of nineteenth century realist novels and modernist works.

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Why is it important?

A contribution to literary geographies, analysisng the way spaces and places act to structure meaning in fictional texts. Contrasting the closed, coherent and orderly world whose boundaries and exclusions make possible the polite society in Austen's works, Joyce's Ulyssesis shown to offer overlaying and intermingling of differing spatial scales and forms. Ulysses is seen as a text using an ordered, systematic spatiality to gve rise to a chaotic form when its recapitulative structure exceeds its own boundaries.