Literary geography in China mainly follows two approaches,with a focus either on the impact of human-land relationships with geo-environment as the axis or on the power relations of contemporary spatial theories.Each ap-proach has its own dis/advantages.The aesthetics of embodied geography is a significant intellectual resource for liter-ary geography.By taking human body as the perspective,investigating the national geo-narratives in early modern Eng-lish literature helps to clarify today's significance of literary geographical resources in the vision of the exchange and mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations.The theories of national personification and of the king's two bodies,popular in early modern England,perceive national geography as a crucial component of the political body,and generate embodied rhetoric in national geo-narratives.Geometry breaks through the barriers between landscape and human body,forming an analogy based on political ethics between them.Geo-mapping and the political body mutually refer to each other,imbuing abstract maps with political significance.The concept of binary gender opposition shapes the gender expression of geo-spaces.The embodiment of geo-narratives carries rich humanism,resonating with ancient Chinese geography,suggesting the possibility of theoretical innovation in literary geography through a systematic and rich depiction of human-land relationships.
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