Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture / edited by Nicola J. Watson

Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description: xi, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Watson, Nicola J., 1958-

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From early modern to Romantic literary tourism : a diachronical perspective / Harald Hendrix -- Making their mark : writing the poet's grave / Samantha Matthews -- The land of Burns : between myth and heritage / Karyn Wilson-Costa -- Literary biography and the house of the poet / Julian North -- The author's house : Abbotsford and Wayside / Erin Hazard -- Bringing down the house : restoring the birthplace / Julia Thomas -- Ghosting Grasmere : the musealisation of Dove Cottage / Polly Atkin -- Women re-read Shakespeare country / Gail Marshall -- John Murray's Handbooks to Italy : making tourism literary / Barbara Schaff -- Selling literary tourism in The bookman / Margaret D. Stetz -- Elizabeth Gaskell and literary tourism / Pamela Corpron Parker -- Rambles in literary London / Nicola J. Watson -- Time-travel in Dickens' world / Alison Booth -- Wessex, literary pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy / Sara Haslam -- Americans and anti-tourism / Shirley Foster -- How America 'inherited' literary tourism / Paul Westover -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida tourism / Diane Roberts -- On the trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa / Lindy Stiebel.

Subject(s)

Authors, English—Homes and haunts—Congresses
Authors, American—Homes and haunts—Congresses
Literary landmarks—Congresses
Cultural geography—History—19th century—Congresses
Tourism—History—19th century—Congresses
Great Britain—Intellectual life—19th century—Congresses
United States—Intellectual life—19th century—Congresses

ISBN

9780230222816
0230222811

Note

Papers presented at the conference "Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture", held in London at the Institute for English Studies in June 2007.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture / edited by Nicola J. Watson

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