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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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 interes...

Table of Contents:

• 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.