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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2009.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/81909034; 820.9008
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: WatsonNicola J. <1958->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture
• ISBN: 9786612504471; 9781282504479; 1282504479; 9780230234109; 0230234100
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511410303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II