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An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

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<h4>University of Minnesota Press, January 2011</h4><h5>By Tom Conley </h5>

Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France.

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