This book provides an account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in global literary and cultural contexts, exploring questions of mediation and how various traditions compete for prominence in our spatial imagination. It explores how landscape is at once conceptual and perceptual, illuminating themes including the temporality of space, the mediations of place that form the response of an observer of a landscape, and the development of response in various stages of life. It engages areas such as ecocriticism, landscape theory, colonial and postcolonial theory, hybridization theory, and East Asian Studies to offer a historicized, global account of our ecospatial imaginations.

Simon C. Estok is Professor and Senior Research Fellow (2014-2016) in the Department of English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. Estok is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literatures at Shanghai Normal University (2013-14) and the Associate Editor for CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.

I-Chun Wang is Professor of English at the Center for Languages and Culture at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan.

Jonathan White is Professor Emeritus in Literature at the University of Essex, UK.

1. Introduction Jonathan White 2. The Geography of Otherness: The Art of Moving and the Space of Time Jonathan Hart 3. The World as a Garden Landscapes and Spatial Imagination in Ancient Egypt Chloé Ragazzoli 4. One Island, Two Founding Myths: When Albion Turns into Britain Sophia Yashih Liu 5. Imperial Landscape of the Mughal Empire in Early 17th Century Geographical and Travel Writings I-Chun Wang 6. The Sublime as the Beautiful: Spatial Displacements in Edward Lear's Landscapes and Limericks Mou-lan Wang 7. Some Like It Hot: Sato Haruo's Travels in the Colony Ping-hui Liao 8. The Work of Mourning: W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn Yu-cheng Lee 9. The Geography of Postmodern Meta-utopian Spaces: "Last Call for a Revolution?" Mary E. Theis 10. The Hermitage as a Converging Space between Nature and Civilization Chung Ling 11. The Changing Ethnic Landscape of Norwegian Theatre Baron Kelly 12. Re-visioning Pacific Seascapes, Performing Insular Identities in Robert Sullivan's Star Waka and Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Sky Hsinya Huang 13. Place, Landscape and Self in Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain Krishna Barua and Anurag Bhattacharyya 14. Afterword-Tripping on the Edge of Everything: Landscape and Ecocriticism Simon C. Estok