Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture
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Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.
Table of Contents
- Notes on the Contributors Introduction
- N.J.Watson From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: a Diachronical Perspective
- H.Hendrix Making Their Mark: Writing the Nineteenth-century Poet's Grave
- S.Matthews The Land of Burns: Between Myth and Heritage
- K.Wilson-Costa Literary Biography and the Making of the Poet's House
- J.North Building the Author's House: Abbotsford and Wayside
- E.Hazard Bringing Down the House: Restoring Shakespeare's Birthplace
- J.Thomas Women Re-read Shakespeare Country
- G.Marshall Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage
- P.Atkin John Murray's Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary
- B.Schaff Selling Literary Tourism to the Literati: The Bookman in the Early 1890s
- M.D.Stetz A woman's Place: Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism
- P.Corpron Parker Rambles in Literary London
- N.J.Watson Home, Country, World: Modes of Dickensian Time-travel
- A.Booth Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy
- S.Haslam Americans and Anti-tourism
- S.Foster Take-away Heritage: Or, How America 'Inherited' Literary Tourism
- P.Westover Uncle Tom in Paradise: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism
- D.Roberts On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa
- L.Stiebel Index
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