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The City in Textual Form: Manhattan Transfer's New York

From the geographical novel to the novel as a geographer iterature has become a significant source of inspiration for geographers in the Llast 20 years. Papers, books and review articles on the subject, most of which have been published in English, are now a well-established part of a geographical discourse that transcends the ’geography-and-literature’ subfield. More and more geographers working in different areas are quoting or referring to poets or novelists in order to provide meaningful insight into their subject matter. More generally, the growing interest in the role of discourse and writing practices has led many geographers to question their own use of language and, in this regard, literature and literary theory may provide valuable food for thought. Humanistic geographers have played a role in drawing their colleagues’ attention to meaning, subjectivity, agency, imagination and, in so doing, to literature.2 Until the 1970s, this interest was minimal and mainly focused on the ’documentary’ value of literary sources for regional geography. In a bid to bring human perspectives and values back to the core of geography, humanists focused on various aspects of ’sense of place’, landscape perception and, occasionally, on the didactic relevance of literature. In the process, various other currents of the discipline have contributed their points of view to the examination of lit-