Imaginary Geography is a scholarly construct in fantasy fiction studies that denotes a fictional spatial system—comprising invented lands, boundaries, and topographies—distinguished by its deliberate departure from real-world geographies to serve narrative, cultural, or ideological functions within imagined worlds.
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‘Left behind places’: a geographical etymology
Andy Pike, Vincent Béal, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval et al. · Regional Studies · 2023 · 264 citations · Full text
Novels, maps, modernity: the spatial imagination, 1850-2000
Choice Reviews Online · 2007 · 205 citations
The dictionary of imaginary places
Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 143 citations
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University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
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University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Texas A&M University
College Station, United States
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University of Miami
Coral Gables, United States
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, United States
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University of Leicester
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