University of Delaware Press, 2004

In “Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing,” Jeffrey Peters examines the convergence of map-making and literary creation in 17th-century France. Peters considers the ideological design and political uses of cartographic technologies and establishes how writers and philosophers used maps and a vocabulary of limits, contours and borders to bring rhetorical focus to a host of social and aesthetic debates in early modern France.

“Mapping Discord” was awarded the 2005 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies by the Modern Language Association.

Jeffrey Peters is associate professor of French studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan. He is a specialist in the literature and culture of early modern France.