Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture

N. Watson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780230222816
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230234109
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Literature

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

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: A Diachronical Perspective
• 2 Making Their Mark: Writing the Poet’s Grave
• 3 The Land of Burns: between Myth and Heritage
• 4 Literary Biography and the House of the Poet
• 5 The Author’s House: Abbotsford and Wayside
• 6 Bringing Down the House: Restoring the Birthplace
• 7 Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage
• 8 Women Re-Read Shakespeare Country
• 9 John Murray’s Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary
• 10 Selling Literary Tourism in The Bookman
• 11 Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism
• 12 Rambles in Literary London
• 13 Time-Travel in Dickens’ World
• 14 Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy
• 15 Americans and Anti-Tourism
• 16 How America ‘Inherited’ Literary Tourism
• 17 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism
• 18 On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa
• Index