Today the interdisciplinary studies have very much influenced the dynamics of the literary criticism. The main goal of our paper is to introduce the “Literary Geography” as a type of literary criticism. As the name implies, this inter-discipline is the result of the interaction of geography and literature, and its emergence is directly related to the importance of the concept of “space” and “place” in the humanities. From the 1990s space and place studies have been a dominant trend in the humanities, which eventually resulted in the birth of the field of “Literary Geography” with its various branches such as “Geocriticism,” “literary tourism,” and “literary cartography.” In this study, the theoretical basics of Literary Geography are introduced, relying on the concept of space and place. Furthermore, we have introduced some important related subfields and their use and current position in the academic studies. Among these branches, “literary cartography,” as a prerequisite for literary geography, is emphasized more than the other branches. Literary Geography provides an apt ground for analyzing different aspects of poetry and fiction. The collected data in Literary Geography can be instrumental in the literary studies and sociology of literature. In fact, geographic data have an important function in literature even though most literary critics usually overlook them.

Keywords: literary cartography, geocriticism, literary tourism, ‎: literary geography, poetry and ‎fiction, space, place.‎

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