For Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) the complete map is hard to read. As with many nineteenth-century novels the spatial complexity of the whole  is too rich to enable easy total understanding.  The form of the map creates a star shape at its centre and when we focus in on this (see detail) we see that it corresponds to Geneva to some extent – as Frankenstein’s home town to which he and the Creature repeatedly return – and to the chronotopes of the 'prison' and the 'road' which dominate the centre of this map.