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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511410303321

Titolo

Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture / / edited by N. Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

9786612504471

9781282504479

1282504479

9780230234109

0230234100

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WatsonNicola J. <1958->

Disciplina

306.4/81909034

820.9008

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Social history

Civilization - History

Great Britain - History

European literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Social History

Cultural History

History of Britain and Ireland

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.