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Julien Nègre
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Maps, literature, whales.

Associate Professor, North American Studies, ENS de Lyon, France
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📢 International Conference “‘Monarch of all I survey’: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies”
📍 ENS de Lyon, France | 🗓️ Nov 20–21, 2025

Keynotes: Julia Kühn (U. Groningen) & Nick Spengler (U. Barcelona).

Castaways! Butterflies! Abolitionists! Imperialism!

monarch2025.sciencesconf.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🌎🔔 Come to Lyon in November!

📍https://monarch2025.sciencesconf.org/
official logo of the academic symposium "“Monarch of all I survey”: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies", to be held at the ENS de Lyon in Lyon, France, on Nov. 20-21, 2025. It features a crude crown motif on a purple background. The crown is filled with the image of an ancient world map representing Robinson Crusoe's journey.
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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unexpected research trajectories continue to emerge from this sperm whale madness
screenshot of an email with the following sentence highlighted: "We are writing to inquire with you whether you have interest on the topic Sperm quality in farmed animals which is scheduled to be published in AIMS Animal Science. With your high reputation and significant contributions in this field and the aim to publish high-quality articles in the first issue, we sincerely invite you to present your excellent research outcome"
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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today: old yellow folders and X-files vibes ☢️
underground stacks at university library with an open drawer containing large topographic maps Yellow folder titled "Geology, Structure, and Uranium Deposits of the Shiprock Quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona" from the US Department of Interior, containing a 1963 geologic map of the area detail of the title of the geologic map detail of the map showing black and white topographic relief and red lines indicating geologic structures and uranium deposits
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🗺️In special collections @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social for new project: massive 1633 French ed of Mercator's atlas by Hondius. Includes stunning 1606 map of Virginia, predating Smith’s, with hints of 1550s French exploration in Florida. Renaissance Latin makes feel more fluent than I really am!
Frontispiece of 1633 French edition of Mercator's atlas by Hondius, with colored engravings 1606 map of Virginia and Florida with colored engravings and Latin text Detail of 1606 map of Virginia showing "Apaltcy Montes" (one of the earliest references to Appalachian Mountains on a European map) and Latin text indicating the presence of gold and silver. Detail of Virginia coastline on 1606 map. Rivers have French names like Charente, Garonne, Loire, etc.
July 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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It took M. F. Maury nearly 10 years to reach this representation of "sea drift and whales" in 1855. Melville's *Moby-Dick* (published before this map) registers this changing perception of the oceans. First time I come across a French version @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social, this one published in 1861.
1861 oceanic chart by M. F. Maury representing ocean currents and whale feeding ground (French edition) Title page of M. F. Maury's Géographie Physique de la Mer (1861 French edition) detail of Maury's ocean current chart showing the Pacific, 1861, in French detail of Maury's ocean current chart showing the Atlantic, 1861, in French
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Unnamed reader from 60y ago left their Théâtre des Célestins ticket as a bookmark in this volume @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social. Not sure anyone has opened this book since then. Chevalier's account of his travels in the US in early 1830s is very interesting and has a nice map focused on transportation.
Cover of Michel Chevalier, Lettres sur l'Amérique du Nord, 1837 This book must be returned before February 14, 1965. Old theatre ticket from the 1960s used as bookmark. Folded map of the US in 1836 at the end of Chevalier's book
July 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out!
Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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A detail of Thomas Jefferson's 1785 map of Virginia published with his *Notes on the State of Virginia*. Gallica, BnF.
June 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Hey @nortoncriticals.bsky.social is that a typo in *Huck Finn*'s 4th critical edition? The 3rd edition had "store", which clearly makes much more sense. Thanks!
A photo of page 178 in the 4th Norton Critical Edition of Mark Twain's *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. The word "stone" is circled in black, indicating a probable typo.
June 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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sometimes you work on a digitized ancient edition, and it's page after page of spotless disembodied images

but sometimes the human body breaches the surface, and here's a hand, and a window opens onto the people who were actually there
several pages of a digitized volume published in the late 18th century. The final image shows the hand of the person who digitized the book. a close up image of the hand holding the book flat; the person wears bright pink finger cots on her thumb, index, and middle fingers
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I think I understood about 61% of what happens in this book—but I loved all 61%. @vajra.me's writing has the texture of dreams, and reading Rakesfall felt like sleepwalking—all I could do was follow the flow and take in what I could, savoring the dizzying (and sometimes hilarious) views 🪐👻✨
Cover of the novel "Rakesfall" by Vajra Chandrasekera (2024).
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Tracez des lignes entre la Horde du Contrevent, Blood Meridian et Lancelot du Lac, au milieu vous trouverez La Sous-Bois de C. Ségas, ovni littéraire captivant en ortografe normalisée dans le monde aride et violent d'après le Reset. (couverture de chaque exemplaire déchirée par l'auteur)
Couverture du roman La Sous-Bois de Cristofe Ségas (Monts Métallifères, 2024). Le coin supérieur droit est volontairement déchiré pour faire apparaître le nom de l'auteur sur la première page qui suit.
February 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🗺️🌎🔔Two CFPs for conferences in Lyon, France, next year:

"Monarch of All I Survey" - Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies (deadline April 15): monarch2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Maps in American Literature, C15-C21 (deadline June 15): maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
February 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century

International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware)

Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Header for a website on an international symposium on Maps in American Literature, to be held in Lyon, France, in April 2026. The background image is an 1857 whale chart representing North America and sea currents in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
January 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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CFP: “Monarch of All I Survey:” Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies.
Lyon, France, Nov. 20-21, 2025.
Have you encountered the phrase "I am monarch of all I survey" or its parodies in your research? If so, this CFP is for you!
monarch2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
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Header image for the international conference "Monarch of All I Survey: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies" (Lyon, France, Nov. 20–21, 2025). The artwork features an enhanced and edited 1865 illustration of Robinson Crusoe by Alexander Frank Lydon. The silhouette of Crusoe and his dog stands on a mountaintop, overlooking the island's landscape.
December 12, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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🗺️📚📍*Écrire avec les cartes* est disponible en ligne chez Épistémocritique ! Hugo, Stevenson, Lovecraft, JC Bailly, Judith Schalansky: les articles explorent les multiples cartes qui ont nourri l'écriture des auteurs & autrices. Codir. avec L. Bischoff et R. Luis.
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Couverture du volume en ligne "Ecrire avec les cartes" codirigé par Liouba Bischoff, Raphaël Luis et Julien Nègre chez Epistémocritique en 2024. L'image de fond est une carte nautique des îles anglo-normandes dans des tons sépias. Elle comprend de nombreuses lignes de rhumb comme un portulan.
November 25, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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This is the Dymaxion Map and it looks like a duck. Have a nice day.
The Dymaxion Map of the world. This version uses satellite images.
November 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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#HelloESR
Je m’intéresse aux cartes utilisées par les écrivain.es américain.es du 18e au 21e. Travail en archive pour étudier leur rôle dans l’écriture et rapport au territoire, environnement, race & genre, mobilité, invisibilité 🗺️🌎Mais une majorité de posts pourraient parler de cachalots🐳 #MobyDick
Trois cartes utilisées par des écrivains américains : Thoreau en 1849, Kerouac en 1947, Lauret Savoy en 2015. A picture of three maps used by US writers: Thoreau in 1849, Kerouac in 1947 and Lauret Savoy in 2015.
November 18, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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the world is falling to pieces but there is still Emily Dickinson

"For Occupation – This –" never ceases to amaze me 🤲
Two poems by Emily Dickinson: J656 The name – of it – is "Autumn" – The hue – of it – is Blood – An Artery – upon the Hill – A Vein – along the Road – Great Globules – in the Alleys – And Oh, the Shower of Stain – When Winds – upset the Basin – And spill the Scarlet Rain – It sprinkles Bonnets – far below – It gathers ruddy Pools – Then – eddies like a Rose – away – Upon Vermillion Wheels – J657 I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of Eye – And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky – Of Visitors – the fairest – For Occupation – This – The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise – Two poems by Emily Dickinson: J378 I saw no Way – The Heavens were stitched – I felt the Columns close – The Earth reversed her Hemispheres – I touched the Universe – And back it slid – and I alone – A Speck upon a Ball – Went out upon Circumference – Beyond the Dip of Bell – J407 If What we Could – were what we would – Criterion – be small – It is the Ultimate of Talk – The Impotence to Tell –
November 14, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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thanks a lot, I had not seen this talk and it looks fantastic. Keene's interviews are extremely interesting. I like the one with Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/upending-the...
December 18, 2023 at 9:34 AM
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📗currently exploring contemporary writer John Keene and his collection *Counternarratives* (2015). Very interesting work on the gaps and silences in master narratives and a project to "queer" American history through fiction.
+ an intriguing use of maps inserted in the text itself 🗺️
December 11, 2023 at 12:35 PM