Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture

• Corporate Author: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Other Authors: Watson, Nicola J., 1958-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Subjects: 1800 - 1899; Authors, English > Congresses. > Homes and haunts; Authors, American > Congresses. > Homes and haunts; Literary landmarks > Congresses.; Cultural geography > Congresses. > History > 19th century; Tourism > Congresses. > History > 19th century; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Authors, American > Homes and haunts.; Authors, English > Homes and haunts.; Cultural geography.; Intellectual life.; Literary landmarks.; Tourism.; Great Britain > Congresses. > Intellectual life > 19th century; United States > Congresses. > Intellectual life > 19th century; Great Britain.; United States.; Electronic books.; Conference proceedings.; History.
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• Item Description: Papers presented at the conference "Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture", held in London at the Institute for English Studies in June 2007.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 230 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780230234109; 0230234100; 1282504479; 9781282504479

Offering an introduction to the new and vibrant field of literary tourism together with a wide-ranging selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research, this volume is indispensable for all students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, but especially for those with interests in travel writing, literary biography, the relations of literature and place, and the production of national identity through literary heritage. Together these essays explore the rise of interest in visiting and memorializing literary places in the nineteenth century, examining the development of writers₂ homes and haunts as tourist destinations and itineraries, and the associated rise of the album, literary biography, the travelogue, and the guidebook, amongst other novel genres. Ranging across Britain, continental Europe and America, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Burns, Byron, Wordsworth, Scott, Letitia Landon, Hawthorne, Dickens, Gaskell, Hardy, Stowe, Haggard and Kipling by British and American tourists.