{"id":18384,"date":"2018-10-21T06:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18384"},"modified":"2018-10-21T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:53:33","slug":"lovecraft-country-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/21\/lovecraft-country-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an elegant map, which might make a useful folded bookmark or paste-in for Lovecraft scholars. Especially those reading through the ever-increasing number of shelf-strainers that contain Lovecraft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2yR6WHd\">Letters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2CtaRxn\">Essays<\/a>, and who are trying to follow the old gent as he zig-zags through the coastal summerlands and backwaters of New England to alight on the doorsteps of fellow amateurs, correspondents and antiquarian museums. The map is from the 1922 edition of <em>The geography of New England<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/nel-map-1922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/nel-map-1922.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>300dpi, in a 3Mb .jpg file.  It&#8217;s not a fold-out, so there&#8217;s not much I could do about the gutter when aligning the two pages in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>Also useful, for following Lovecraft&#8217;s more local walks into the city-centre, is a 1907 street-map of central Providence. Hand-drawn by a local, it was intended for use as part of a city-wide &#8216;open day&#8217;.  As such it shows the hopping off points for the tram lines that Lovecraft would have used to get out and about, and it usefully highlights and has a fine-grained local awareness of which stores and buildings are worthy of notice.  Again, there was not much I could do about the map&#8217;s gutter, as it wasn&#8217;t a fold-out map.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-map-1907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-map-1907.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18592\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an elegant map, which might make a useful folded bookmark or paste-in for Lovecraft scholars. Especially those reading through &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/21\/lovecraft-country-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-maps","category-odd-scratchings","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}