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. INDICE: - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; N.J.Watson - From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: a Diachronical Perspective; H.Hendrix -Making Their Mark: Writing the Nineteenth-century Poetb s Grave; S.Matthews -The Land of Burns: Between Myth and Heritage; K.Wilson-Costa - Literary Biography and the Making of the Poetb s House; J.North - Building the Authorb s House: Abbotsford and Wayside; E.Hazard - Bringing Down the House: Restoring Shakespeareb s Birthplace; J.Thomas - Women Re-read Shakespeare Country; G.Marshall - Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage; P.Atkin - John Murrayb s Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary; B.Schaff - Selling Literary Tourism to the Literati: The Bookman in the Early 1890s; M.D.Stetz - A womanb s Place: Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism; P.Corpron Parker - Rambles inLiterary London; N.J.Watson - Home, Country, World: Modes of Dickensian Time-travel; A.Booth - Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy; S.Haslam - Americans and Anti-tourism; S.Foster - Take-away Heritage: Or, How America b Inheritedb Literary Tourism; P.Westover - Uncle Tom in Paradise: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism; D.Roberts - On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa; L.Stiebel - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22281-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 244
- Fecha Publicación: 13/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés