Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Frontispiece
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preamble
• Part One: Defining Islands and Isolating Definitions
• 1. Defining Islands and Isolating Definitions
• Definition
• Epistemology
• Dialectic
• Nesology
• 2. Horizontal and Vertical
• Horizontals
• Verticals
• 3. Animate Swimmers and Inanimate Floaters
• Big Fish
• Ship
• Floating Island
• 4. Material Substance and State of Matter
• Ice Floe and Lava Flow
• Northwest Passage
• Feeling for Snow
• Bergman’s Island
• Part Two: Placemarks and Cultures
• 5. Cities in Straits
• Straits
• Island-Cities
• 6. Naming and Sovereignty
• What’s in a Name
• The Trouble with Islands
• 7. Utopias and Laboratory Hypotheses
• One Place as Another
• Hypotheses
• Three Island Utopias
• 8. Politics, Philosophy, Epic Drama
• War of Civilizations
• Poets’ Contest
• Islands Razed and Raised
• If Athens Were an Island
• Aristotle’s Drowning
• Part Three: Hamlet’s Globe
• 9. The Distracted Globe
• The Globe
• North Sea Empire
• Holmgang
• Plots and Patches
• Thin Ice
• Sublime Coast
• 10. Island Words
• Ham
• Elsinore
• Orisons
• 11. Dire Straits
• Passages, Geological and Zoological
• Hven in Øresund
• Hamlet’s Egg
• The Goodwin Sands
• Breaking Out
• 12. Liberty
• Exile, Theatrical and Corporeal
• þing and King
• Magna Carta Island
• Part Four: Sea and Land
• 13. Hamlet Is Germany
• Rule, Germania!
• Planted on a Free Island
• Germany Is Hamlet!
• 14. The Region of Illusion
• The Ring in the Reef
• S.O.S. Eisberg
• Airships
• 15. Building for a Future
• Beyond the Pale
• Floating the British Empire
• Postamble
• Speaking on the Shore
• Terra Infirma and Critical Topography
• Geography as Institution
• Where to Sit
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Name Index
• Place Index