{"id":1805895,"date":"2022-01-20T18:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T23:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805895"},"modified":"2022-01-20T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T23:36:27","slug":"new-exhibition-mapping-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/new-exhibition-mapping-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibition: Mapping Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TitleA new exhibit on the relationship between maps and literature, Mapping Fiction<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, opened on January 15th at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. \u201cOn view in the Library\u2019s West Hall, the exhibition is timed to coincide with the centennial of the publication of James Joyce\u2019s groundbreaking 1922 modernist novel, Ulysses<\/em>. […] About 70 items will be on view, focused on novels and maps from the 16th through the 20th century\u2014largely early editions of books that include elaborate maps of imaginary worlds.\u201d Tickets required; runs until May 2nd. More from the Guardian<\/em><\/a>. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new exhibit on the relationship between maps and literature, Mapping Fiction, opened on January 15th at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. \u201cOn view in the Library\u2019s West… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1805895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-exhibitions","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806593,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/maps-and-literature-updates-two-exhibitions-and-an-article\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805895,"position":0},"title":"Maps and Literature Updates: Two Exhibitions and an Article","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The Osher\u2019s fantasy map exhibition, North of Nowhere, West of the Moon: Myth, Fiction, and Fantasy in Maps, is now online\u2014though a number of the exhibition\u2019s maps are unavailable to view, I\u2019m guessing for copyright reasons (previously). 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