Includes bibliographical references and index.

In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalisation of geography in the nineteenth century novel. Balzac's Paris, Dicken's London and Scott's Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of Spanish picaaresque novels, African colonial romances and rRussian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.